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The problem with any first sentence, said Joan Didion, is that you’re stuck with it.
like Günter Grass’s definition of a writer as “a professional rememberer.”
Um, no. But, to borrow from a certain critic, in almost every long book I read I see a short one shirking its job.
“It is bound to be very imperfect,” Virginia Woolf told her diary as she began work on a new novel. Enthusiastic, nevertheless.
Resigned to the fact that, whenever I write something about writing or being a writer, I am annoying the hell out of some people. (How can one reflect on life without also reflecting on writing? asks Annie Ernaux, in her Nobel Prize lecture.)
