The Interview

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The interview was invented a little over 130 years ago and has since become a commonplace of journalism.

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Some view interviews as a source of truth in their highest form and consider the practice an art. They are also seen as a supremely serviceable medium of communication.

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Celebrities often see interviews as an unwarranted intrusion into their lives or feel that interviews somehow diminish them, similar to how some primitive cultures believe photographing someone steals

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In some primitive cultures, it is believed that if one takes a photographic portrait of somebody, then one is stealing that person's soul.

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V.S. Naipaul was a cosmopolitan writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He felt that some people are wounded by interviews and lose a part of themselves.

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Lewis Carroll, creator of Alice in Wonderland, had 'a just horror of the interviewer' and never consented to be interviewed. He would repel interviewers and relate stories of his success in silencing

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Kipling called interviews immoral and criminal, comparing them to an assault on his person. He said, 'It is cowardly and vile. No respectable man would ask it, much less give it.'

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The irony is that Kipling had himself 'perpetrated such an assault' on Mark Twain only a few years before condemning interviews so harshly.