Tag: writing

  • the how / A+M: nose (2019)

    When I have to pick a single favorite page of comics I have done so far, this is the only one that ever comes to mind: Maybe there are some clues and lessons in there.

  • Lydia Davis on people’s opinions

    Disregard what other people may think (but not what they may feel). Lydia Davis (from “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits”)

  • David Milch on not knowing where you are going

    I don’t linger a lot in self-delusory exercises in control — don’t describe too much or even have to have an objective idea of what a scene is about. My only responsibility to an active imagination is to submit myself Read More

  • George Saunders on not knowing

    For me, writing a book is not about knowing something and then conveying it. (…) It’s a struggle with something so difficult that it takes all of my resources, and some I didn’t previously know about. Mostly, I don’t know Read More

  • Zadie Smith on advice

    I feel fraudulent giving advice. I’m a writer narrowly focused on the page in front of me and then the page after that. But maybe that is advice in itself: focus on the page in front of you. That’s what Read More