Tag: Creative Writing
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Lydia Sandgren: “To write is to conquer the world. It’s a chance to seize eternity. To write is to refuse to die.”
Lydia Sandgren’s “Collected Works”: “To write is to conquer the world. It’s a chance to seize eternity. To write is to refuse to die.”
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“I’ve come to love wrestling out an argument and polishing rhythmical prose. Perhaps the only recompense for tragedy—for death and loss of innocence—is the chance to create some measure of beauty. The marvel of a well-crafted sentence—finding just the right diction and syntax—is a small triumph over pain, a way to create order in the world.”
<3 I’ve come to love wrestling out an argument and polishing rhythmical prose. Perhaps the only recompense for tragedy—for death and loss of innocence—is the chance to create some measure of beauty. The marvel of a well-crafted sentence—finding just the right diction and syntax—is a small triumph over pain, a way to create order in…
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What moves you most in a work of literature? Weirdness mixed with tenderness. Moments where a little sliver of light appears, something that can help you find a way toward something better. I tend to love books where freakishness isn’t presented as something inhuman, but rather an affirmation of what it means to be a…
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writing & inflation
Working on a novel and I wanted to indicate that a Manhattan restaurant had a price point of medium-high boogie. I settled on $49.68 as the cost of their average entrée. But a paragraph later, I realized that inflation could soon make that figure meaningless. In a year, who knows, $49.68 might get you one…