We don't know what we'd do. Nobody knows what accident of fate or DNA or character will determine how we act when the shit hits the fan.
What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great...
Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet?
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it's essential to slow down and read every word. Because one important thing that can be learned by reading slowly i...
You know who they wanted to play Rick? Aaron asked.I shook my head. Why was I so tense? Didn't Aaron's question prove that we were just a couple of old-movie fans swapping Hollywood trivia gossip?Rona...
You think, Fuck it. The guy’s a genius. He deserves her. What is a woman, after all? You are alive and in Paris.
You will do yourself a disservice if you confine your reading to the rising star whose six-figure, two-book contract might seem to indicate where your own work should be heading. I’m not saying you sh...
Yvonne had created this place for her and for others like her: born into the wrong life, the wrong body, an innocent victim of God’s mistake.
Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.
Convinced us that she is telling the truth as she describes the world around her and looks inward, as if her private self is a foreign country whose geography and customs she is struggling to understa...
Decision. I was tired of his jealousy, sick of his belief that the only permissible topic of conversation was his unrecognized genius.
End of this painful story: a man possessed and maddened enough to write such letters, and a bereaved father receiving them, until at last he reached the point at which he refused to read any more.
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From the earliest passages to the diary’s final entry, in which she talks about her dual personality, the lighthearted, superficial side that lies in wait to ambush and push away her better, deeper, a...
Good writing should be grasped at once—in a second.
Illness of Bep’s father—bad news that makes her want to fall asleep as a release from thinking.
Is starting to happen between the two teenagers: It gave me a queer feeling each time I looked into his deep blue eyes, and he sat there with that mysterious laugh playing round his lips…and with my w...
She lacks the nonchalance for conducting deep discussions;
She takes me so seriously, much too seriously, and then thinks about her queer little sister for a long time afterwards, looks searchingly at me, at every word I say, and keeps on thinking: ‘Is this j...
The truth is that grammar is always interesting, always useful. Mastering the logic of grammar contributes, in a mysterious way that again evokes some process of osmosis, to the logic of thought.
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