After your glowing recommendations (from your most recent published essay collection), I read One Hundred Years of Solitude (and have already gifted multiple copies of the book).
My question is: As a writer, how do you read a book like that and not throw in the towel forever? ie how do you stop yourself from discarding everything you may have already written?
Thank you.
P.S. I have also felt the same way while reading Midnight’s Children…..and also while reading anything by Barthelme….or Kafka….or….Chekhov…I guess it happens quite a bit (you should see my trash bin of discarded pages).
What advice would you give a writer who is a beginner?
After your glowing recommendations (from your most recent published essay collection), I read One Hundred Years of Solitude (and have already gifted multiple copies of the book).
My question is: As a writer, how do you read a book like that and not throw in the towel forever? ie how do you stop yourself from discarding everything you may have already written?
Thank you.
P.S. I have also felt the same way while reading Midnight’s Children…..and also while reading anything by Barthelme….or Kafka….or….Chekhov…I guess it happens quite a bit (you should see my trash bin of discarded pages).