I Cannot - The Paris Review
this hurdle I have to jump over each time I write: How can I say this more crisply? When I write (which is really just to say: when I think) it all boils down to one simple, but utterly excruciating question: What am I really trying to say here?
Isabel Hazan • distillation
Stuart Evans and added
in writing, I feel a strange euphoria… there are so many ways to say nothing.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
Atmos Black added
This is the sort of thing I tend to think about. I ponder the paradox—stare at it as if it were an object on the desk in front of me. I stare and wait for ideas and intuitions to gather, but I do not unpack my instruments of reason.
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
I know that many of these virtues have to do with the ways in which the pieces handle and respond to the tsunami of available fact, context, and per-spective that constitutes Total Noise. This claim might itself look slippery, because of course any published essay is a burst of infor-mation and context that is by definition part of 2007’s overall r... See more
David Foster Wallace • Deciderization 2007—a Special Report
Joseph added
David Foster Wallace, Total Noise
I think a lot about the limitations of language and how we interpret the language we use every day to talk about the senses.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
Keely Adler and added
Writing is hard, there are so many approaches. And you never capture the surprise of life, the way things build up on each other, meaning upon meaning.