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The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
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The Getaway Car: A Practical
Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this, because it is the key to making art and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life.
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The Getaway Car: A Practical
Why is it that we understand that playing the cello will require work but we relegate writing to the magic of inspiration?
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I think that what influences us in literature comes less from what we love and more from what we happen to pick up in moments when we are especially open. For
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you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive. The
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You wouldn't believe all the nice people I've met at chemotherapy," she
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If I were taking notes, they would read: I see something. A shape? I have no idea. It's not exactly the stuff that literary archives are made of.
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novel excerpts rarely benefit from group critique. It's one thing to get all those opinions when you've finished, but when you're still in the middle of a project, it's like having fifteen people give you conflicting directions as to how best to get to the interstate.} And
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The Getaway Car: A Practical
I decided I was going to make up a novel, and that the novel was going to get me out of the restaurant. The novel was going to be my getaway car.
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No one should go into debt to study creative writing. It
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Making friends with other writers you respect is reason enough to go to graduate school. You
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The Getaway Car: A Practical
had I listened to no one, or only to the people who liked me, the workshop would have been a waste of time.
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The Getaway Car: A Practical
People like to ask me if writing can be taught, and I say yes. I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to write dialogue, maybe even how to construct a plot. But I can't teach you how to have something to say. I would not begin to know how to teach another person how to have character, which was what Grace Paley did.
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