On writing
Octavia Butler did not wait to feel inspired before she began. Long before she became one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, she was keeping notebooks that read less like romantic musings and more like a quiet contract with herself. Inside them: daily writing goals, affirmations written and rewritten, reminders to get up early, to... See more
1granaryinstagram.comNow the writer, as I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of this reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us. So at least I infer from reading Lear or Emma or A la recherche du temps perdu. For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on... See more
Live at enmity with unreality
In The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin writes:
As they say in Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Which is another way of saying, when you can’t write, read. When you can’t read, sleep
This is brilliant. He wrote #Fahrenheit451 and I love that little tick in his voice. Have a delightful life. Don't be serious.#RayBradbury
houseofnnaeeinstagram.comDoris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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This seems obvious once you state it, but it took me a long time to understand. I knew I wanted to write for smart people about important topics. I noticed empirically that I seemed to be writing for the young. But it took me years to understand that the latter was an automatic consequence of the former. In fact I only really figured it out as I... See more
David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things
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The dawn of the post-literate society
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