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"Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. Someday I'll put that on a three-by-five card and tape it to the wall beside my desk. I have some three-by-five cards on the wall now. 'Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.' Ezra Pound. It is not everything by ANY means, but if a writer has 'fundamental accuracy of statement' going for him,he's at least on the right track. "I have a three-by-five up there with this fragment of a sentence from a story by Chekov: '. . . and suddenly everything became clear to him.' I find these words filled with wonder and possibility. I love their simple clarity, and the hint of revelation that's implied. There is mystery, too. What has been unclear before? Why is it just now becoming clear? What's happened? Most of all - what now? There are consequences as a result of such sudden awakenings. I feel a sharp sense of relief - and anticipation. "I overheard the writer Geoffrey Wolff say "No cheap tricks" to a group of writing students. That should go on a three-by-five card. I'd amend it a little to 'No tricks.' Period. I hate tricks." Raymond Carver

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Category: miscellaneous (continued)
Category: music
Category: politics
- Five things Feminism has done for me (9)
- (almost) funny police story (4)
- 2666 by Roberto Bolaño (2)
- A Bumper Sticker (1)
- A Chance to Speak (4)
- A New Home In London? (1)
- A Poem by Julius Chingono (6)
- Acts of Destruction - Mat Coward (3)
- Advertisers Rule - OK (1)
- Amazon Prices (2)
- Amazon Trickery
- America in denial over gun control (37)
- America still in denial over gun control (32)
- American KidLit
- Amis and Eagleton (2)
- Amnesty International & Turkey (2)
- Amulet by Roberto Bolaño (1)
- An Enemy of the People (5)
- Anne Enright on China and Censorship
- Another interview (8)
- Another Poem by Czeslaw Milosz (2)
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- Arthur Miller's Broken Glass (1)
- Bad Product Awards (3)
- Baghdad's Book Market
- Bali - Climate Change (4)
- Banned Books in the UK (2)
- Being Average in Germany
- Bennett to Amis: Shame on Us (2)
- Beyond the UK Border (4)
- Bhagdad Burning (4)
- Bits of Hay
- Blog Rally (1)
- Bondage to Bondage - Democracy Bye-bye (5)
- Bringing Love to the World - American-Style
- Bullies, Muggers, Sneak Thieves, and Con Men (3)
- Burma, Writers and Censorship
- Bush Acting Strangely? - I Don't Believe It (2)
- Bush and Blair (3)
- Bush Humour (7)
- Bush Lied (6)
- Busted flat in Baton Rouge (4)
- Butterfly of Hope (2)
- By Night in Chile - review (1)
- Can the President Pardon Himself? (10)
- Cheaper than war
- China (2)
- China's High-Tech Police State (1)
- Christmas Eve (2)
- Christmas Morning (1)
- Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers (4)
- Cluster bombs (6)
- Coffee in Tehran
- Conservapedia (7)
- Copyright and Pirates (2)
- Creating a Text - Paul Sutherland
- Cycle Paths - cooled and shaded (1)
- Czeslaw Milosz and Solidarity (2)
- Dad is Baghdad
- Dancing Round Europe
- Dear Senator Edwards: (1)
- Desmond Tutu Banned from Minnesota University (3)
- Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson (4)
- Eduardo Galeano Interview (1)
- Egyptian blogger sentenced to four years (2)
- End In Sight In Corruption Murder (2)
- Evil? I Don't Think So. (2)
- Five Questions: Bhupinder Singh (4)
- Five Questions: Newley Purnell (1)
- Five Questions: pas au-dela (1)
- Five Years
- Five Years Ago
- Football is faster than words
- Forty Acres
- Free Hugs Campaign (3)
- General Pinochet (8)
- George Carlin - RIP
- Getting Him Ready To Go (3)
- Girl Blog from Iraq (1)
- Go figure . . . (3)
- god stuff (2)
- Google - the evil empire? (4)
- Gore Vidal and the bomb (2)
- Great Firewall of China (5)
- Guantanamo (5)
- Guantanamo: Stop this outrage (3)
- Hang 'em High (3)
- Harmful Books? (2)
- He's gone (4)
- Himmler - Speaking To His Own
- Homecoming - GI Zombies
- How To Sell Your Book (21)
- I Blog, therefore . . . (1)
- I Couldn't Bring Myself To Care About (1)
- I'm Dreaming of a White President
- Inexclusion (3)
- Interview with Charles Foran
- Interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- Isabel Allende (2)
- It's all right to attack a politician's religion (6)
- It's Perfectly Normal (6)
- Jalaladdin Rumi (2)
- Jeanette Winterson (7)
- Journalists face imprisonment for article on jokes (2)
- June - a poem - a massacre - a torch (2)
- Ken Robinson on Changing Paradigms
- Kenya (3)
- Lady Godiva - No thank you
- Let's Clean Up Fashion (6)
- Living in Community, Writing Alone I (2)
- Living in Community, Writing Alone II (6)
- Loose Change (2)
- Louise Bryant (1)
- Macbett by Eugene Ionesco (1)
- Man of great moral courage (7)
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán sometime minimalist cook (3)
- Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
- Maverick Sabre - They Found Him A Gun (2)
- McJob (2)
- McJob (6)
- Meet the World
- Melt the Guns (3)
- Modernism II
- Modernism III
- Modernism IV (1)
- Modernism VII
- My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru (1)
- Myanmar (Burma) Today (3)
- New Shoes (7)
- No More Heroes (5)
- No thanks, your honour . . . (1)
- Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka (1)
- Not Eating with the Bushes (5)
- Obama Adds Faith to Hope and Change (14)
- Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack (36)
- Omid Djalili (2)
- Orhan Pamuk (4)
- Out-takes XXII (2)
- Out-takes XXIII (1)
- Outer Life; Inner Life (11)
- Paul Wolfowitz and Accountability (9)
- Persepolis (1)
- Phil Beer & Miranda Sykes
- Pie in the Sky (2)
- Pierrepoint - the last hangman (8)
- Pink - Dear Mr President (8)
- Plan B: ill Manors (1)
- Political Education: Joseph Stalin in Hull (1)
- Politics and the English Language (3)
- Politics, Real Life & the Crime Novel (2)
- Postcard of the Hanging (9)
- Postcards of the Hanging (4)
- Poverty - Oct 15th (1)
- Presque vu IX (1)
- Presque vu L (1)
- Presque vu LI
- Presque vu LIII
- Presque vu LIIX (2)
- Presque vu LIV
- Presque vu LIX
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- Presque vu LVI
- Presque vu LX (1)
- Presque vu LXI
- Presque vu LXII (1)
- Presque vu LXIV (2)
- Presque vu LXIX (1)
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- Presque vu LXVI (1)
- Presque vu LXVII (2)
- Presque vu LXVIII (1)
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- Presque vu LXXII (3)
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- Presque vu LXXIX (1)
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- Presque vu LXXVIII (1)
- Presque vu V (5)
- Presque vu VI (1)
- Presque vu VII (2)
- Presque vu VIII (1)
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- Presque vu XI (1)
- Presque vu XII (3)
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- Presque vu XVI (2)
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- Presque vu XXI (4)
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- Presque vu XXVII (1)
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- Presque vu XXXXI (3)
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- Presque vu XXXXVIII (1)
- Press Freedom Index (4)
- Prigs (2)
- Protesters like Moths to a Flame (3)
- Public Lives/Private Lives (1)
- Rain All the Way at Hay (3)
- Re-reading JM Coetzee's Disgrace (10)
- Read for Peace
- Reigns of Terror
- Remembering Howard Zinn
- Salman Rushdie's Brush with Security (3)
- Scared to Death (3)
- Science and Reason (3)
- Secrecy
- Secret Lives of Cities
- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
- Should They Be Allowed To Marry? (1)
- Some Restaurants and Cafés to Avoid (1)
- Sometimes You Just Have To Pee In The Sink (5)
- Starbucked (3)
- Stealing Books (2)
- Stop Me and Buy One
- Subversive Vanity Fair (1)
- Super-Cannes by JG Ballard (3)
- Take Jane (2)
- Tango Siempre with Gilad Atzmon
- Ten Awful Truths . . . (2)
- That Book Meme . . . (4)
- The Absolute Voice of Death (1)
- The Afghan Who Dared Read About Women's Rights (3)
- The American World (13)
- The Arts' Debate (1)
- The Beautification Engine (3)
- The Blossom Embraces the Bee (4)
- The Catastrophist by Ronan Bennett - a review (3)
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle (5)
- The Clintons (4)
- The Deputy Prime Minister (3)
- The Devil's Bargain
- The Devil's Harvest (3)
- The Dixie Chicks (9)
- The EcoDepot (2)
- The First Brit (1)
- The First Pole
- The History Boys - a review (9)
- The House of Bernarda Alba
- The IGnobel prize (1)
- The Lives of others (Das Leben der Anderen) - a film review (6)
- The Master and Margarita (5)
- The Monster of Florence (11)
- The Monster of Florence II (1)
- The Mutt's Nuts (3)
- The Plot Against America (2)
- The Poems in Che's Green Notebook (14)
- The Police At The Door
- The post turtle (6)
- The Prison of National Vanity (1)
- The Retreat from Common Sense (4)
- The Road to Heaven (5)
- The Satanic Verses & Rushdie's Knighthood (1)
- The Shakespearean Scholar of Sarajevo
- The South by Colm Tóibín - a review (2)
- The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibin (3)
- The stuff of dreams - RSC at Newcastle (2)
- The Writers' Police (3)
- This Year's Speech
- Thursday Thoughts: 2
- Thursday Thoughts: 3 (3)
- To Siberia by Per Petterson - Book review (6)
- Today's nice story with Ribena (2)
- Tom's News (2)
- Top 10 Conservative Rock Songs (13)
- Treating Deportees (2)
- Tricksy Spirits and Odd Lads (4)
- UK Complicit in US Torture Programme? (1)
- Under Western Eyes - a novel (4)
- Undermining Freedom (1)
- Uniforms (3)
- US Elections - change is the key (5)
- Vonnegut to Willeford (3)
- War on Terror
- Warriors & Widows
- We Don't Want To Go To China (3)
- What's Left at Hay?
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf - the text (4)
- Why ban poetry? (3)
- Willy Maley, Scottish Poet
- Winged with Death Virtual Tour - 9 (1)
- Women - An Owner's Manual (4)
- Women at Work (4)
- World's Problems Solved. Apply within. (5)
- Wrestling Mad - a bad play (4)
- Writers at the Brussells Tribunal
- Writing Shooting in the Dark (1)
- You've Got To Hand It To Them (4)
- Zimbabwe - Time to Act
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