— Presque vu XXXXVII

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— Interview with F Scott Fitzgerald

The Guardian’s edited version of “The Other Side of Paradise, Scott Fitzgerald, 40, Engulfed in Despair” by Michel Mok, first published in the New York Post, September 25 1936
The author’s wife, Zelda, had been ill for some years. There was talk, said his friends, of an attempt at suicide on her part one evening [...]

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— The Novel and the Internet and an Old Trout

Penelope Farmer, a novelist of some repute, found there was still a demand for her work - via her blog.
The book I’d been writing, like its predecessor, was turned down - that this happens frequently these days to writers of my generation was no comfort at all. I felt too discouraged to start another. But [...]

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— Kurt Vonnegut

By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for [...]

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— Learning to Write XIII

Iteration - it means you repeat it, you do it over and over again. And this ability, to iterate, is a writer’s greatest virtue. It is what separates him or her from all the other people who would like to be writers but who don’t sit down to write every day.
If you want to be [...]

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