For a reason I can’t pin down, a big outdoors endeavor like this was sexy to me, maybe because of its sheer distance from anything I had ever done before.
“I’d been beguiled by the new technology—a toddler crawling toward a gun.”
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
― So You've Been Publicly Shamed
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.”
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“I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit. This might not be important. On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I need not be visibly odd. I could engage in the protocols that others followed and move undetected among them. And how could I be sure that other people were not doing the same - playing the game to be accepted but suspecting all the time that they were different?”
― The Rosie Project
― The Rosie Project
“Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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