![]() As Grant notes, Davies would not be “in full command of his creative powers” until Fifth Business when his writing became more confident and more emotionally present. In an interview with Elizabeth Sifton in 1986, he noted that as a playwright “You’re perpetually subjected to governance by people who haven’t written the play … When you’re a novelist, you’re writing a play but you’re acting all the parts, … and it’s your show.” The desire for creative control would follow Davies throughout his career and would be a major point of contention in his relationships with publishers. He switched to novels after deciding that plays were an ineffective means of expression because his creative aims were often diluted or lost by the demands and interpretations of directors and producers. Until the early 1950s, Davies, at one time an aspiring actor, wrote plays in the hopes of becoming a successful dramatist. ![]()
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