Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with … - Hilma Wolitzer

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I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.

Hilma Wolitzer

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.

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The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.

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There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.

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Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.

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hardly anything in L. A. was close to anywhere else you wanted to go.

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