@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
Walter KirnTags: writing vanity twitter 2011 robert-l-baird
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Walter KirnTags: reason wit twitter 2011-tucson-shooting hate-speech
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
Walter KirnTags: politics presumption taylor-swift twitter spiderman noam-chomsky 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting blame-game emanuel-bronner jared-lee-loughner
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Walter KirnTags: media news twitter 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting
My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are other people who share your dreams, and where you can talk, talk, talk about your interests. Writing books begins in talking about it, like most human projects, and in being close to those who have already done what you propose to do.
Walter KirnTags: writing new-york-city
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.
Walter KirnThe lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.
Walter KirnIf I had to pick between knowing just a little about a lot of folks and knowing everything about a few, I'd opt for the long, wide-angle shot, I think.
Walter KirnWe're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much, and when we do there's a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present.
Walter KirnLiterature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the world, I'd started to fear: to conjure up disagreements that didn't matter and inspire people to act on them as though they mattered more than anything. Without literature, humans would all be one. Warfare was simply literature in arms. The pen was the reason man invented the sword.
Walter KirnTags: literature
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