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“I believe the first draft of a book — even a long one — should take no more than three months…Any longer and — for me, at least — the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Racism towards Muslims is as evil as anti-Semitism, but try to express this simple truth on a partisan Palestinian or Israeli website.”
― Death of the Liberal Class
― Death of the Liberal Class
“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
Stefanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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