writing 5
- What makes fiction feel like fiction is a degree of contrivance and structure, not raw imitation of life's randomness.
- Rachel Cusk's prose imitates the surface techniques of W.G. Sebald without adopting his underlying artistic aims.
Brandon Taylor
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
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What Brandon Taylor says most about
America 2
- Americans tend to be aggressive yet thin-skinned, sure of their own rightness while doubting everyone else.
- Coaches who depend on clients paying them repeatedly avoid the corrections that might drive those clients away.
motivation 2
- Hard work does not guarantee that it will pay off.
- Having an external accountability partner makes people follow through on writing they would otherwise skip.