Reading and writing
“You have to realize that you cannot hope to console yourself for your grief by writing.”
– Natalia Ginzburg, “My Vocation”
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
I keep my writing private.
Reading and writing
“You have to realize that you cannot hope to console yourself for your grief by writing.”
– Natalia Ginzburg, “My Vocation”
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
I keep my writing private.