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CAN CREATIVE WRITING BE TAUGHT? It’s a reasonable question, but no matter how often I’ve been asked, I never know quite what to say. Because if what people mean is: Can the love of language be taught? Can a gift for storytelling be taught?
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“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“Too much advertising had turned the spontaneity of ‘la vie bohème’ into a huge commercial success,” recalled Montparnasse bartender Jimmie Charters.”
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
“It’s not how we got here,” she said as she went. “Or even that we are here. It’s where we go from here.” A”
― Mrs. Saint and the Defectives
― Mrs. Saint and the Defectives
“I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.”
― How to Stop Time
― How to Stop Time
“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty crowd: the Beat Generation, Generation X, the Millennials, and so on. But the Lost Generation was the forerunner of modern youthful angst banners, and The Sun Also Rises was its bible.”
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
― Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway's Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises
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