Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 31
October 5, 2013
"A line I use a lot, usually without giving [Steve Almond] credit, is ‘build the ramp, then slow the..."
“A line I use a lot, usually without giving [Steve Almond] credit, is ‘build the ramp, then slow the fuck down.’ In other words, resist the urge to rush through a story’s big, emotional moment(s). You can make a reader feel something by lingering in an uncomfortable place, just noticing. But it’s hard because you have to go through the discomfort yourself, on top of the general discomfort of writing.”
- Kelly Luce (via mttbll)
- Kelly Luce (via mttbll)
October 4, 2013
October 3, 2013
likeafieldmouse:
Su-Mei Tse - Many Spoken Words (2009) - Cast...
"Women are not only subject to a constant and exhausting and sometimes humiliating scrutiny—they are..."
“Women are not only subject to a constant and exhausting and sometimes humiliating scrutiny—they are also belittled for caring about their beauty, mocked for seeking to enhance or to hold onto their good looks, while men are just, well, being men.”
- Beauty is in the eye of the writer. Adelle Waldman discusses why many novelists fail to address female beauty in a meaningful and nuanced way. (via millionsmillions)
- Beauty is in the eye of the writer. Adelle Waldman discusses why many novelists fail to address female beauty in a meaningful and nuanced way. (via millionsmillions)
"That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done,..."
“That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
- Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
October 2, 2013
"Of course you can get better at writing if you do it a lot, but the moments when I feel I’ve got the..."
“Of course you can get better at writing if you do it a lot, but the moments when I feel I’ve got the craft down are usually the moments when I’m writing least well. There’s something useful about being humbled by the difficulty of what you’re doing, and by the sense that you’re trying to figure it out. It’s maybe better not to know what you’re doing, or at least that’s what I tell myself, because most of the time I really don’t feel that I’ve figured it out.”
- Nicholson Baker (via mttbll)
- Nicholson Baker (via mttbll)
theparisreview:
The Chateau Hardware
It was always November...
The Chateau Hardware
It was always November there. The farms
Were a kind of precinct; a certain control
Had been exercised. The little birds
Used to collect along the fence.
It was the great “as though,” the how they day went,
The excursions of the police
As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting
Neither fire nor water,
Vibrating to the distance pinch
And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you.
—John Ashbery
Art Credit Neil Atherton.
