“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Words have weight.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“yet if the war had taught me anything, it was that barbarism was universal.”
― The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
― The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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