September Michaud’s Reviews > Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer's Craft > Status Update
September Michaud
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"I have been astonished by how few people--people who supposedly want to write--read books, and if they read them, how little they examine them. It's as though they popped one enjoyable, smooth, round gumdrop after another into their mouths and swallowed, never feeling the texture or flavor on their tongue."
— Feb 10, 2016 06:43AM
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September Michaud
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On Southern writers: "There is something extravagant and wild about what they have to say--snakes on the roof of a car, swamps, a delta, sweat, the smell of sea, buzz of air conditioner, Coca-Cola--something fertile, with a hidden danger or shame, thick like the humidity, unspoken yet ever-present...I'm just writing what I know, they think. But what they know has a built-in richness and heritage."
— Feb 10, 2016 04:23PM
September Michaud
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"As a writer you should go to a book thirsty and suck it dry."
— Feb 10, 2016 04:15PM
September Michaud
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"Learn to get close--'every eyelash, the pink flesh on the edge of my eyelid, the red network of vessels...' and stay in there and hold steady."
— Feb 10, 2016 04:13PM
September Michaud
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"the best stories are the ones where all the elements are not separated, but woven together-the character, the place and so on. Then plot is more than just an action that happens. The action reveals character, it's anchored in a setting, it reverberates in memory.
— Feb 10, 2016 06:41AM
