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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside”
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Law & Literature
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— last activity Apr 08, 2015 08:01PM
I occasionally teach a seminar for college freshmen titled "Law & Literature," and am always on the lookout for good novels, short stories, poems, and ...more
David Foster Wallace
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— last activity Oct 15, 2016 07:21PM
A group for the amazing work of David Foster Wallace, now deceased. RIP 1962-2008 Feel free to add his books to the bookshelf for the group.
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Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolism, surrealism, similar writer ...more
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