I love research – that’s all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That’s a serious flaw in my writing process – shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.
BOB SHACOCHISI should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.
More Bob Shacochis Quotes
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The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative.
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The people who I’ve lived with for 10 years in my imagination are now sort of defunct. To lose them is rather a mournful process – it’s not a relief.
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I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.
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For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends and imaginary events and imaginary grace and imaginary tragedy.
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It is no secret that souls sometimes die in a person and are replaced by others.
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