To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how t… - Steve Almond
I want to view my own efforts to write a novel as a function of my own artistic aspirations rather than a good career move. And I need to learn how t…
- Steve Almond
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. - Steve Almond
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.
There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers - Steve Almond
There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction. - Steve Almond
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the n… - Steve Almond
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and you memorize the words and the n…
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period. - Steve Almond
The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.
Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion. - Steve Almond
Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. - Steve Almond
Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods. - Steve Almond
Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.
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