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World Split Open: Great Writers on How and Why We Write
World Split Open: Great Writers on How and Why We Write | Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Jeanette Winterson, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Wallace Stegner, Ursula K Le Guin
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Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world s most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage for one of the country s largest lectures series. Sold-out crowds congregate at Portland s Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to hear these writers discuss their work and their thoughts on the trajectory of contemporary literature and culture. In celebration of Literary Arts thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highlights from the series in a single volume. Whether it s Wallace Stegner exploring how we use fiction to make sense of life or Ursula K. Le Guin on where ideas come from, Margaret Atwood on the need for complex female characters or Robert Stone on morality and truth in literature, Edward P. Jones on the role of imagination in historical novels or Marilynne Robinson on the nature of beauty, these essays illuminate not just the world of letters but the world at large."
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World Split Open: Great Writers on How and Why We Write | Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Jeanette Winterson, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Wallace Stegner, Ursula K Le Guin
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“If my circumstances were a wall, then there was a secret door in the wall and the door was a book. Open it.” —Jeanette Winterson

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World Split Open: Great Writers on How and Why We Write | Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Jeanette Winterson, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Wallace Stegner, Ursula K Le Guin
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“Well, the secret to writing is writing. Writing is how you be a writer. It‘s only a secret to people who really don‘t want to hear it.”

Ursula K. Le Guin is, as always in her writing about writing, hilarious. 😆

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World Split Open: Great Writers on How and Why We Write | Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Jeanette Winterson, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Wallace Stegner, Ursula K Le Guin
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Multi-tasking: trying to defuse an anxiety attack related to Uncooperative Neighbors Behaving Badly, and to finish this library book so it can go back tomorrow. (Tea pictured in progress. 😁)

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World Split Open: Great Writers on How and Why We Write | Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Jeanette Winterson, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Wallace Stegner, Ursula K Le Guin
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“Literature is intimate behavior between strangers.“ — Russell Banks

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World Split Open: Great Writers on How and Why We Write | Margaret Atwood, Marilynne Robinson, Jeanette Winterson, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Wallace Stegner, Ursula K Le Guin
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“Love is an emotion that does not depend on perfection.“ — Chimamanda Adichie