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So here’s one of my morals: write for yourself, to help you understand how narratives work in life. At the same time you don’t need to write alone, and philosophers and literary critics will tell you it’s impossible anyway. There’s always an imaginary other, a “model reader” (to use Umberto Eco’s useful expression) who’s there in the corner of your
... See morethis is why i reject the liberal notion of writing as a mere act of self-expression. thats the language of a depoliticized art, the language of people who have the privilege of believing their words exist in a vacuum. but words are weapons, and i refuse to wield them lightly.
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if you can’t even type it—forget about publishing it, we’re just talking about the initial keyboard action—that means that you don’t want to know yourself.
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Ezra Klein: The Case Against Writing With AI | How I Write
open.spotify.comI was writing for some clear, single person—I would say myself, because I was quite content to be the only reader. I thought that everything that needed to be written had been written: there was so much. I am not being facetious when I say I wrote it in order to read it. And I think that is what makes the difference, because I could look at it as a... See more
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
John Baldessari puts this best: “Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.”
nothing is ever useless, and certainly is never lost.
Shirley Jackson: Memory and Delusion
You have said that you started with one idea for The Bluest Eye and then changed your mind and rewrote the whole thing. It seems like an enormous task.
That was thrilling to do. But if I had approached it like, "Oh, my God, I did it wrong, now I have to do it right," I would never have done it at all. It's a process of discovery. I feel an... See more
That was thrilling to do. But if I had approached it like, "Oh, my God, I did it wrong, now I have to do it right," I would never have done it at all. It's a process of discovery. I feel an... See more
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
We’ve got a once-in-the-history-of-our-species opportunity here. It used to be that our only competitors were made of carbon. Now some of our competitors are made out of silicon. New competition should make us better at competing—this is our chance to be more thoughtful about writing than we’ve ever been before. No system can optimize for... See more