Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.
From Janet Fitch
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
A book's flaws make it less predictable.
As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer.
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
I kept sending out stories and getting rejected.
As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.
Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.
It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.
A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.
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