reminders

Above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of the story and from language.

Indeed, thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem heavy and opaque.

Beckett’s plays (and maybe even his novels) come out of a private kind of dialogue (or monologue);

“THIS IS WHAT is diabolical about prose, it is never finished,” said Flaubert, cooling his cheeks with the palms of his hands, then cooling his hands against the iron knobs of the tall andirons.

purpose as an invention

I soon realized that the gap between the realities of life that were supposed to be my raw materials and the sharp, darting nimbleness that I wanted to animate my writing was becoming harder and harder for me to bridge.

ONE THING I knew was that I would never be a good content provider. I would have liked to become a form provider.