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June 21, 2018June 14, 2018 quotes character and fictioncharacter quoteshilton alsthe paris reviewwriting advice

I learned that if they're characters, you don't think about what they have given you or taken away -- they're just someone you're describing.

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June 20, 2018June 14, 2018 quotes fictionhilton alsthe paris reviewwhy write

For me, writing is a way of struggling through the intricacies of an anti-empirical sensibility. And there must be words other than fiction and nonfiction. I see fiction not as the construction of an alternate world but as what your imagination gives you from the real world.

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February 25, 2018February 4, 2018 quotes percival everettthe paris reviewwriting advice

At thirteen, I’d never thought about writing. But the experience of understanding that you cannot take the entire work in at once, yet that there are places you can enter—I still hold onto that. 

February 18, 2018February 4, 2018 Lit katherine anne porterthe paris reviewwriting process

I look upon literature as an art, and I practice it as an art. Of course, it is also a vocation, and a trade, and a profession, and all kinds of things; but first it’s an art, and you should practice it as that

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