"I shut off my iPhone, I take my typewriter and sit and I don’t worry about the typos, I keep moving forward, and I go dah dah dah dah ding!"
2 weeks ago"The first draft of anything is shit."
Simon Kuper for FT Magazine:
Email kicked off an unprecedented expansion in writing. We’re now in the most literate age in history. I remember in 2003 asking someone, “What’s a blog?” By 2006, the analysis firm NM Incite had identified 36 million blogs worldwide; five years later, there were 173 million. Use of online social media rises every month. In fact, writing is overtaking speech as the most common form of interaction.
So there is something good that has come out of email?
[via Felix Salmon]
"Don’t fucking lie. Seriously, don’t fucking lie. Don’t claim to have been the only white girl gang-banging in South Central. Don’t claim to have been raised by wolves. Don’t claim that you took a root canal without pain killers. You are not a bad ass. You are a writer. The first step is to accept this and not fucking lie."
"I like writing out of confusion, panic, a sense of everything being perilously close to collapse. So I try to embrace the fiction of all things."
"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."
