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“I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are…” quote by Will Self — Download Open image

“I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.”

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As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

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As a writer, I'm not convinced that we are the best equipped to understand how we go about the business of literary production.

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