Discovery is the joy.
We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I t… - Adam Haslett
We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I t…
- Adam Haslett
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. - Adam Haslett
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will. - Adam Haslett
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.
Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court. - Adam Haslett
Only the luckless, the petty or the deranged [end] up in court.
Discovery is the joy. - Adam Haslett
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shamef… - Adam Haslett
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's hard and at times shamef…
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, … - Adam Haslett
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, …
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there. - Adam Haslett
As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.
That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by other… - Adam Haslett
That is much of what I think the writer's job is - to slow people down. To give them the chance to notice the passage of time as experienced by other…
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