"Faulkner believed failure was what kept writers going, and that if you ever could write something equal to your vision, you’d kill yourself."

Why Write?

By Elisa Gabbert

July 6, 2022

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/07/06/why-write/

#ElisaGabbert #writing

In an interview in 2015, the novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner, who writes a lot about fame, said the following:

"Of course Warhol said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, but I think the new model of that mantra is that in the future—which is now—everyone will be famous all the time."

#ElisaGabbert #Warhol

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/12/05/on-writerly-jealousy/

"Short books don't make me think of death. I don't worry I'll die before I finish them. "

— Any Person is the Only Self by #ElisaGabbert

"Everyone says you should read Proust, of course! But no one had ever told me specifically that *I* should read Proust."

— Any Person is the Only Self by #ElisaGabbert

A line I keep coming back to:

"I wonder if the way the world gets worse will barely outpace the rate at which we get used to it." —Elisa Gabbert, The Unreality of Memory

#books #future #ElisaGabbert