The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.
There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar sit...
I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.
There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
The writer must write what he has to say not speak it.
A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
The beginning is easy what happens next is much harder.
There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader's attention or check his habitual pace of reading - he sho...
If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus teaching at least part-time at university level mingling too much for his work's good with academics doing as...
The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose not his individuality but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written ... she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in the...
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
That's not writing that's typing.
There is an accuracy that defeats itself by the overemphasis of details. I often say that one must permit oneself and quite advisedly and deliberately a certain margin of misstatement.
I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.
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