Teaching is all armchair. I learn about writing by writing and thinking about what I've written and throwing it away.
Ben MarcusThe common, the quotidian, is so much more unyielding to me, really stubborn and hard to work with, and I like this because it makes me think and it makes me worry. I can't just plunge my hand into the meat of it. I need new approaches.
Ben MarcusA self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.
Ben MarcusFiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
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