Tag page - Proust

I’m usually very conscious of my deadlines when I write but only because I want time to read what I write over and over, sometimes aloud, and to change it here, there, everywhere I can make it sound better. Mostly, I only change for rhythm, what sounds good to my ears.    I have no idea...

Make room for good writing even when the times make bad sentences seem good enough  “I am a complexly horizontal author,” says Truman Capote. “I can’t think unless I’m lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy.”  It’s never...

And the tortured writer When these writers, solitary creatures of the night burning the midnight oil, seek to satisfy their nocturnal cravings, what do they seek to fill up—their grumbling stomachs, their hollow minds, their aching hearts, their restless souls? Hunger is a form of loneliness, or...

An impossible conversation on loss because, like tears, a quote from some of our favorite writers can wash away our sorrows Illustration by Ariana Maralit I’m on a late-night drive, along an empty street, listening to  The Smoking Popes . The 1990s pop punk band from Chicago is...