The Art of Memoir
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Started reading December 9, 2024
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once heard Don DeLillo quip that a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them.
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A curious mind probing for truth may well set your scribbling ass free.
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Truth works a trip wire that permits the book to explode into being.
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The goal of a voice is to speak not with objective authority but with subjective curiosity.