"It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Lucy Corin

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“If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.”
“We do things much the same way as we did 50, 60 or even 70 years ago. The answers may not be wrong, but we haven't experimented to see whether they are or not.”
“It seems to me that maybe pretty much always means no. So dont tell me, I might just let it go.”
“A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.”
“There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordÂ—tensionÂ—has an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endÂ—is the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?”
“People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.”

Source : Richard Russo (2017). “Mohawk”, p.157, Atlantic Books
“Art is when things appear rounded.”
“Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”

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