Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
…Maybe it’s the fault of our languagebut dreams are innocent and pictorial.Then let our dreams speak for usside by side, leg over leg,an electroencephalographic kiss
For all their shared boundaries, the experiences of fiction and nonfiction are fundamentally different. In the traditional short story or novel, a fictive space is opened up that allows you the reader...
We who areyour closest friendsfeel the timehas come to tell youthat every Thursdaywe have been meetingas a groupto devise waysto keep youin perpetual uncertaintyfrustrationdiscontent andtortureby neit...
A young person still thinks it is possible–there is time enough–to become all things: athlete and aesthete, soldier and pacifist, anchorite and debauchee.
To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant act. It presumes that you should be listened to for pages on end... But there is much in the culture to clip the wings of arrogance, mute assertion, and encour...
But the one I cannot, and the other I will not do.
I have also time on my hands to correct my opinions, and polish my periods;
Part of the storytelling ability is simply the anticipation of boredom.
What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph,
The Japanese believe that sadness comes from an awareness of the fragility of life at the same time one is captivated by its transient beauty. The cherry blossoms. But that is a very superficial under...
The solution to entrapment in the narcissistic hothouse of self is to not relinquish autobiographical writing, but to expand the self by bringing one's curiosity to interface with more and more histor...
What makes me want to keep reading a nonfiction text is the encounter with a surprising, well-stocked mind as it takes on the challenge of the next sentence, paragraph, and thematic problem it has set...