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The Writing Lifeexpand_morePart of my desire to be in London related to its writers.
This box is full of wires, energy that moves in ways I can hardly fathom.
home is his hands, our bowls, so many gay fridge magnets.
I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.
Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?
No one in Lagos slouches. Bravado pulsates through the room.
I came to computers while trying to run away from literature.
I’m told that even during war, she took the time to put on lipstick.
In the best fiction, there exists a palpable sense of discovery.
The best writers talk a story the way they put it down on the page.
It’s wrong to say the lightning is pink is nothing other than to say it’s not.
If you’re not having fun, then there isn’t a big impetus to stay alive.
Mentors can suggest to you what more you are capable of.
A romp through everyday dramas with Hemingway, Kafka, and more!
If the kind hearts had fat purses, how much better everything would go!
Heaven preserve me from the Epidemic of a Proud Ignorance!
It’s been a rainy, relatively windless fall, the aspen leaves still clinging.
Love is the difference between a full life and an empty one.
Every really good book on first reading is life changing.
I’m a big fan of then. A novel needs a lot of thens.
Love is not something you wait for passively, but a practice.
Try never to repeat rhymes, not once in an entire show. It tires the ear.
Don’t write what you know. Write what you can imagine.
Most days, at the pool, we are able to leave our troubles on land behind.
In narrative terms, sex is the propeller that moves the story along.
What’s the most useful criticism you’ve received? “Keep writing.”
Henry Chinaski is just so deplorable and lovable; he makes me laugh.
I simply wrapped my arms around Maxey and held on for dear life.
