Claire Messud: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Essays in The Yale Review
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Claire Messud: Revisiting Virginia Woolf's Essays in The Yale Review
Selected Essays (Oxford World’s Classics)
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Of all the questions an aspiring writer might ask herself, here’s the most urgent: What makes a reader keep reading? Or, actually: What makes my reader keep reading? (What is it that propels a reader through a swath of my prose?) How would we know? Well, as we’ve said, the only method by which we can know is to read what we’ve written on the
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There’s always an imaginary other, a “model reader” (to use Umberto Eco’s useful expression) who’s there in the corner of your mind. To write a novel or a poem, they say, you need to have a sense of a reader: your mental picture doesn’t have to be exact or personalized, but no work exists without an imaginary third participant. There’s always you,
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