There is a thread running through the labyrinth of
words that reveals a writer's path. ?
'Classless and powerless can write better."
'Opportunity to expand, to experiment,to explore
and investigate....Keep the flight of the mind, yet be exact."
"I am myself the matter of my book." Montaign
'Mix personal history with current events to explore
themes such as race, sex, class."
ESSAYS
"Essais" means Attempts
Essays offers a neutral platform from which to examine
race, class, morality,(all the big issues)
'Messy complicated Ideas that represent messy complicated ideas."
"An essay is a monologue, direct speech."
'Novel is concerned with numerous voices, an essay is a monologue."
Essay is a meditation than an act of persuation."
'Open your mind to people and ideas as a writer."
"I wrote for my life"
'Writing gives you an identity that's both consolidating and liberating
like a Cartesian. assertion of existence." HQ
ESSAYS DIVIDED INTO SECTIONS
Politics
Culture
Films
Writing
Domestic
ESSAY VS NOVEL,SHORT STORY, POEMS
Essay allows a communication of ideas and thought,
process thats more personal and informs a wider understanding
of a writer's art and the world in which we live."
As a writer push instead of being passive."
Use contacts, try, you never know...right? no? Oh! well, I tried." BSz
'Intelligent reflective writing that contextualise readers world.
'There are writers for whom no forms exist."
"Freeness of its form,(essay) encourages exploration and leaps of imagination
in writer and reader which is a pleasure and a challange"
'Mental operations involvrd in reading can seem to be our own private success." Pamuck
EVIL IN WRITING AND IN LIFE
"To enjoy the agony one inflicts on another and to inflict
it purely for the reason is part of the traditional notion of evil."
'Empathy erosion also means evil."
