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But there is also a long tradition of crime writing being viewed as these novelists' guilty pleasure.
"We're both very strong believers in writing being cathartic so after a horrible event it's something that feels very natural to do to make sense of it".
The marvel is that such lyricism, such wonder, such luminous recollections could be sustained in a barred dungeon, subscribing, I suppose, to Borges's claim of writing being "a vague, unreasonable, but ancient quest".
Zadie Smith, in the New York Review of Books: Knausgaard's boredom has many elaborations: the boredom of children's parties, of buying beers, of being married, writing, being oneself, dealing with one's family.
As to what made me write... Somebody talked once about writing being a creaming off of the excess, in the sense of your responses to your life or whatever's happening - I like that idea.
"I have resolved nothing," he writes in "L'Arrière-pays," "which can also explain why I have remained a writer, writing being the wood that piles up as the fire starts to catch".
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There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard.
"Writing is being murdered.
Writing is selection.
"Writing is so hard.
Writing is self-absorption.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com