5 Matching Annotations
- Sep 2023
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the past [is] altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past”
The past is not changed, but the way we perceive it is.
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Perhaps other people’s poems do what they tell them to, but mine rarely do.
I feel that. The same thing happens to me with the plot of short stories. It's always fun when you are surprised by your own writing.
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One writes because one wants to produce something separate from oneself
This may be true for some, but I think that every piece of writing contains a piece of the one who wrote it.
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I have neither the desire nor the ability to discern an author's intentions.
Personally, when I read, I have the opposite approach. I could care less what is written. I am more interested in how the writing makes both the author and the reader feel. I want to know what the writer was thinking when they wrote it. I want to know what feelings and ideas inspired them.
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if what mattered most to a writer was what was in his or her head, there’d be no reason to write anything
Respectfully, no. The reason is that they want to share the experience of what's in their head with other people. That's the whole point!
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