Caroline Starr Rose

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On Writing

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…The task is always to write every single piece like it’s your only one. It has to have that energy. Use your best material now. Just squander yourself. Enjoy it. I don’t want to read anyone’s tepid writing. For the critic (or any writer, really), your first mandate is get the reader’s attention and then keep it. All your fine thoughts and nuanced interpretations are worthless if no one bothers to get to them. Fundamentally your job is to keep somebody reading. Sentence by sentence. You have to hold them. Sentence by sentence. Demonstrate authority. Books deserve it.
— Parul Sehgal

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  1. Linda Jackson says

    February 2, 2018 at 2:33 pm

    Thank you!

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    • Caroline says

      February 2, 2018 at 4:32 pm

      I’ve stopped by to read this one several times myself.

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