“My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.” – Italo Calvino
realms of imagination
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing.
Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. – Wells Tower
craft murders Literature
“…I realized that I would greatly prefer to think of literature as a profession, an art, a science, or pretty much anything else, rather than a craft. What did craft ever try to say about the world, the human condition, or the search for meaning? All it had were its negative dictates: ‘Show, don’t tell’; ‘Murder your darlings’; ‘Omit needless words.’ As if writing were a matter of overcoming bad habits—of omitting needless words.” Elif Batuman
and yet can we write without it?
the big bang
It requires an enormous amount of concentration and faith to carve out that little bit of space into which you can insert a world that feels real.
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