July 2011
14 posts
“I am a complete nut – I read my Amazon reviews and I’m like, really people-who-can’t-be-bothered-to-spell-the-author’s-name-right-and-whose-last-purchase-was-a-Swiffer? Get f**ked. I think these things and I go searching for them because I’m human and someone invented the Internet and that’s that.”
—sloane crosley interview on hellogiggles on constructive and not so constructive criticism.
“she had a romatic’s view of broken love affairs. when an interviewer once asked her if she thought it silly to kill oneself over unrequited love, she opened her eyes wide. “no,” she said. she took the same approach to the writing of novels. the solution for both was foreign travel.”
—marion meade, dorothy parker: what fresh hell is this?
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
—Lawrence Kasdan (baitandswitch)
a contingency plan presents itself:
sketchyjoe replied to your post: a catholic guilt approach to writing: My tactic is the exact opposite. I read stuff on terrible writers who have achieved some degree of success and then write as well as I can purely from spite. Just one Nicholas Sparks interview can give me 5-6000 words.
a catholic guilt approach to writing:
solely reading biographies on successful writers until i am finally compelled to finish this book.
“one show, for example, got her recommendation as an excellent place to do knitting and “if you don’t knit, bring a book.” with another, she refused to print the names of author or cast, declaring that she was “not going to tell on them.” there was a show she ignored entirely, instead reviewing the performance of a woman seated next to her who had been searching for a lost glove.”
—marion meade describes dorothy parker’s acerbic theater reviews in dorothy parker: what fresh hell is this?
beach reading suggestions?
i’m going on vacation to hawaii this week and have no idea what to read. looking for something that doesn’t require supreme concentration but isn’t too fluffy either. any recommendations?
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