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It's a very performative thing, grief. As with so much in modern life, I think there's a whole performative layer to what we do because we feel like there's a private TV show viewing our lives.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Because Feel Grief Layer Life Like Lives Modern Modern Life Much Our Our Lives Private Show Thing Think Tv Tv Show Very Viewing Whole I Think

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Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Concrete Dealing Feel Good Guilty Loss People Society Something Who

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V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Admired Been Born Century Died Elizabeth Ever Forgotten Fun He His Most Prose Queen Real Shame Since Till Work Writers Wrote 20Th Century

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One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: About Accounting Clear Disconcerting Field King Know Land Little Parcel Publication Taste Things Trying Where Writing You Your

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You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Been Doing Hard Hate Might People Published Really Respect Scary Someone Something Well Who Work Worse Wrong You

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The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

~Darin Strauss

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Write what you think is good, is the whole of the law.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Good Law Think Whole Write You

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I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Had Jobs Professional Them Writer

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Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Being Blank Blank Page Career Constant Course Desk Dictated Freelance Friends Hard Job Our Page Paths Rejection Reviewers Security Terror Understand Why Writing

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In order for a narrative to work, the primary character should have a concrete desire - a need that drives her story - and the story's writer should make this goal known to the reader pretty early in the narrative.

~Darin Strauss

Topics: Character Concrete Desire Drives Early Goal Her Known Make Narrative Need Order Pretty Primary Reader Should Story Work Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1970

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