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Novelist as a Vocation
The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami (Published 2011)
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Writing a Novel by Richard Skinner
The essential companion for your writing life from the Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy and creator of our flagship Writing a Novel six-month course. Writing a Novel is not a set of instructions: it is a way of thinking, a conversation, a relationship in itself.
The essential companion for your writing life from the Director of the Fiction Programme at Faber Academy and creator of our flagship Writing a Novel six-month course. Writing a Novel is not a set of instructions: it is a way of thinking, a conversation, a relationship in itself.
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Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation: The master storyteller on writing and creativity
I never had any ambitions to be a novelist. I just had this strong desire to write a novel. No concrete image of what I wanted to write about, just the conviction that if I wrote it now I could come up with something that I’d find convincing. When I thought about sitting down at my desk at home and setting out to write I realized I didn’t even own
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“All creative activity is, to some extent, done partly with the intention to rectify or fix yourself. In other words, by relativizing yourself, by adapting your soul to a form that's different from what it is now, you can resolve— or sublimate— the contradictions, rifts, and distortions that inevitably crop up in the process of being alive. And if
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