Tag: why write
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Some pre-publication advice for aspiring writers
Some writers say it’s a total waste if you write something no one reads. Others won’t produce until they have the guarantee of a commission. Some believe traditional publication is so important that they will wait 12 years to find an agent/editor/small press and collect a few nominations to awards you’ve never heard of. I…
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The stories that you tell, the words that you use and refine, the characters you try to give life to are merely tools with which you circle around the elusive, unnamed, shapeless thing that belongs to you alone, and which nevertheless is a sort of key to all the doors, the real reason that you…
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The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
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It is nothing to me that what I write should find immediate or general acceptance: it is much to know that on the whole it has won for me the right to address this dedication and inscribe this edition to you.
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For me, writing is a way of struggling through the intricacies of an anti-empirical sensibility. And there must be words other than fiction and nonfiction. I see fiction not as the construction of an alternate world but as what your imagination gives you from the real world.