Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.
Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need. - Ben Marcus
Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.
- Ben Marcus
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without… - Ben Marcus
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without…
Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same. - Ben Marcus
Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability. - Ben Marcus
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away. - Ben Marcus
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, … - Ben Marcus
In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, …
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, un… - Ben Marcus
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, un…
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it,… - Ben Marcus
In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it,…
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of rel… - Ben Marcus
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of rel…
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