Bernardo
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Bernardo
approach writing not as an intellectual operation but as capturing your personal emotional experience.
The irrationalist • Writing Hack: Write It Just Like That
I just write what seems to me to feel true. To feel emotionally true. When there’s emotional truth, there follows a rhythm, and I think a beauty of image, because you’re seeing clearly. Because of the simplicity of what you see.
Adrian Zupp • Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
light years james salter
Light Years James Salter: An In-Depth Exploration of a Literary Classic
When exploring the landscape of American literature, few novels manage to capture the nuanced essence of human relationships and the fleeting nature of time as effectively as Light Years by James Salter. This seminal work, published in 1975, stands as a
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fullpdfword.orgThe redemption arc, in clumsy hands, becomes cheesy and unbelievable, offending good taste more often than not. Granted. But literature has, in the past, found ways to handle this sort of plot delicately, and to great effect. After all, the question of how a person changes ought to absolutely possess a novelist – as a matter of philosophical... See more
The Lost Redemption Arc
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
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