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"Like so many current debut novels, the writing here is stronger than plot or character..."
This from the Kirkus Review of Susan Choi's debut novel, The Foreign Student. I remember reading this and feeling like this was very applicable to my writing. It's the predicament I'm stuck in where I feel like I have the ability to write a novel, but not ( Read more... )
This from the Kirkus Review of Susan Choi's debut novel, The Foreign Student. I remember reading this and feeling like this was very applicable to my writing. It's the predicament I'm stuck in where I feel like I have the ability to write a novel, but not ( Read more... )
also, i've been reading a book my friend recommended, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and I found this interesting quote. I don't know if it's completely true, but it could be more fodder for writing?
"Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his (or her!) on way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter. This is why we love Madame Bovary and cry for Emma, why we greedily read Lolita as our heart breaks for its small, vulgar, poetic and defiant orphaned heroine."
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