Saturday, July 16

Anecdote vs Writing

"You get no points for the living, I tell my students. It isn’t enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means."
--from here

2 comments:

  1. I was just introduced to Sugar last week via some interview some internet journalist did with them. Pretty moving stuff. Miss you!

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  2. Yeah, a lot of your posts are over my head.
    But you love me anyways. It's all good.
    Love you too!

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