Posts Tagged ‘James Joyce’
The Alchemy of Composition: Jamie O’Neill’s Literary Magic
“When you’re writing you’re that bird on the wing, you’re soaring and you’re plummeting but you’re not telling the wings to do anything. When you’re describing afterwards what’s happened you’re applying logic to something that really is intuitive. You’re talking about ailerons and that sort of thing, like you’re moving an airplane rather than the eagle.”
Creating the Chorus: Joshua Kryah and the Question of Faith
“…the poem that is crafted as well as it can be crafted sometimes winds up just ‘saying’ something; it’s saying this about language, or it’s saying this about faith, or it’s saying this about the Beloved, or the condition of love. Whereas right now what I want to do is speak. I want, not to pronounce, but to let the poems go further than they usually have, or that I’ve allowed them to go.”
Fiction as Fibbing: Benjamin Taylor
Posted: November 25, 2008
Tags: J.D. Salinger, William Golding, Baader-Meinhoff, "Ulysses", Walt Whitman
“It’s about fifty percent based on certain things I know from real life, and about fifty percent made up out of nothing, just out of daydreaming. I think that’s the way it should be. This is not memoir, this is not autobiography, this is not confession. It’s fibbing. It’s making things up.”
Exploring Transition: Aryn Kyle
“I think a lot of my writing begins with something I lived or something I saw, but then develops from the question, ‘What would it have been like to live through that experience if I was this person, or that person, or if this had happened rather than that?’”
Artistic Fundamentals: Gabriel Judet-Weinshel
Posted: September 15, 2008
Tags: William Ruiz, Impressionist painters, Julian Schnabel, Mary Oliver, Cubist painters
“… any time somebody’s taste expands I think it’s because something touches them in that new thing that they’re drawn to, something that’s accessible immediately. If there’s nothing accessible immediately I don’t think you can gravitate towards something, but if there’s something immediately accessible or something that touches you, then that creates the spark that makes you want to stretch.”
