Jul 6, 2022 · “The motive of pure personal fun starts to get supplanted by the motive of being liked,” Wallace writes, and the fun “is offset by a terrible ...

Jan 26, 2021 · In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind.

Dec 17, 1995 · From 1995, the author answers the age-old question in a series of five subjects: a film, a fall, a storm, a note, and a game.

Why write, when the world wants to be informed, not enlightened; to be entertained, not inspired? Writing is backbreaking, mindbreaking, lonely work. So why?

Mar 25, 2022 · There's myriads of reasons for why I write: therapy, escapism, exploration and personal expression. One of the things that gravitated me towards ...

Writing requires the compression of an idea. When done poorly, compression removes insights. When done well, compression keeps the insights and removes the rest ...

I wanted to write enormous naturalistic novels with unhappy endings, full of detailed descriptions and arresting similes, and also full of purple passages in ...

Dec 5, 1976 · There you have three short unambiguous words that share a sound, and the sound they share is this:

Sep 25, 2023 · For individual academics, writing is a means to getting a job, keeping a job, getting promoted, winning funding and building a personal profile.

Writing stops me from lying in real life. It's like creating time. When you write you invent events and places and people all of which you've been at or been to ...