Re: read OR write
Catherine Marie (tangerineness@hotmail.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:47:17 -0700 (PDT)
This is a response to a slightly old message, but I've been away for a while
and I couldn't not respond to this one. Although I must agree that it
doesn't take someone who is "well read" to be a good writer, and I don't
want to get into that part of it, but I think maybe, just maybe, there is a
far more important reason that many authors are well read, that has more to
do with why they write than why they read. I just want you to read a passage
from a book many of you know very well.
"If only you'd remember before ever you sit down to write that you've been a
reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your
mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of
writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his
heart's choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly
believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing
yourself. I won't even underline that. It's too important to be underlined."
-Seymour Glass
Catherine
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