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In short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame…

literature, writing

A writer’s mind is a place where demons fight angels in disguise.

literature, writing

A writer’s mind is a place where demons kill angels in disguise.

literature, writing

David Foster Wallace

Postmodern irony and cynicism’s become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what’s wrong, because they’ll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony’s gone from liberating to enslaving. … The postmodern founders’ patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years.

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An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

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Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

literature, writing

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not “publishing’s” –

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To write only according to the rules laid down by masterpieces signifies that one is not a master but a pupil.

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The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it’s possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it’s a duty.

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Jorge Luis Borges

I kept asking myself how a book could be infinite. I could not imagine any other than a cyclic volume, circular. A volume whose last page would be the same as the first and so have the possibility of continuing indefinitely.

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Natalie Goldberg

The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

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Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

literature, writing