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It wasn’t that she’d forgotten, exactly. The problem was more a kind of slippage. When she was writing a novel, living deep inside a fictional world, the days got jumbled together, and entire weeks or months or even years would yield to the ebb and flow of the dream. Bills went unpaid, emails unanswered, calls unreturned. Fiction had its own time a
... See moreRuth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
a sudden vision, a pause to ponder, then a rush to get it all down.
Alexandra Schwartz • Miranda July Turns the Lights On
For her the flower is the locus of many mental threads, some nascent, some spanning her career. Her field notebook is not some convenient way to store lifeless data to be presented in lifeless papers so that other scientists can replicate some dull experiment; it’s the site of a collision between a mind and a world.
James Somers • More People Should Write
ascetic
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
The angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
futurity:
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
I like writing that is unsummarizable, a kernel that cannot be condensed, that must be uttered exactly as it is.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
I had passed from the subject to the direct object of every sentence of my life. In