Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
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Joy Williams on Why Writers Write
EB White:
... See more“The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. He is a fellow who thoroughly enjoys his work, just as people who take bird walks enjoy theirs. Each new excursion of the essayist, each new “attempt,” differs from the last and ta
Some people spend their whole lives looking for a good story.
Rayne Fisher-Quann • against narrative
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
Joan Didion • Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s one of the rules of the game.