✖️On Art, Alternative Histories, and the Arbitrariness of Life with Catherine Lacey✖️
The Shakespeare and Company Interview
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The Importance of Attention in Writing
I don't feel like making books as some kind of sacred thing I mean I personally feel a kind of sense of attention when I'm actually in the sense of writing that is satisfying to me. But yeah, there's definitely the sense of the writers I find most interesting and not the ones who sort of hold up writing and books as some sort of sort of sacred almost kind of semi-religious activity. Those who almost filmed, not exactly kind of disgusted by what they do but just to sort of, but recognize that kind of a lot of it is sort of spent down sort of,. let's say kind of in the trenches kind of getting lucky and being disappointed.
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