David Foster Wallace: Writing, Death, and Redemption
You don’t have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness … has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I’m going …
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Zadie Smith’s Ten Rules of Writing
1. When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else. 2. When an adult, try to read your own …
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Depths of your being…
To write well about the elegant world you have to know casino online it and experience it to the depths of your being… what matters is not whether you love …
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Mickey Spillane: The older, the better
If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he …
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Neil Gaiman on the magic of writing
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know …
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Paulo Coelho on writing well and notetaking
On Confidence You cannot sell your next book by underrating your book that was just published. Be proud of what you have. On Trust Trust your reader, don’t try to …
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Roald Dahl on fools and writers
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why …
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Ralph Ellison on nightmares and files
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I’ve learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one …
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Anaïs Nin on creating worlds in which one can live
Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which …
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Nicole Krauss on writing and misunderstandings
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the …
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