The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. - Rivka Galchen
I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.
- Rivka Galchen
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, … - Rivka Galchen
The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, …
The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question,… - Rivka Galchen
The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question,…
We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to… - Rivka Galchen
We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to…
But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cerea… - Rivka Galchen
But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cerea…
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true. - Rivka Galchen
Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.
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