Jill Talbot quotes
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“I like to think about the genre, the essay or the memoir, as much as I enjoy writing within its fluid parameters. And teaching allows me to think about it, to articulate it, and to explore it.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Simply put, meta-writing is writing that is self-conscious, self-reflective, and aware of itself as an artifice. The writer is aware she's writing, and she's aware there's a reader, which goes all the way back to Montaigne's often-used address "dear reader," or his brief introduction to Essais: "To the Reader." It can be done in a myriad of ways.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“There's a moment in Sarah Manguso's The Guardians when she writes, "I try not to make anything up, and I fail every time." I get giddy when I come across lines like that - when the writer is not only making a meta-move, but one that troubles truth and fiction, the nature of genre itself.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“It's been very jarring for me to stand in public and read about myself and my daughter and her father. I feel like I'm reading someone else's story, and I feel like I've lost something, too, in the writing of self, as if I'm standing and reading myself, as a stranger, to other strangers.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“One of my friends who writes novels says that once the book is published, it's a separate thing from you; it becomes its own. I feel that way when I read - and that applies to the experience of reading my work in public, too. The essays are a barrier between me and the audience, and it feels like a disappearing act. Poof! I'm gone, and the woman I've created on the page emerges.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“When I admire a writer, it's for the recognizable palette - Hemingway's minimalism, the dialogue, those isolated bar scenes. But with each story or novel, he shows me something different within the framework he's built - like noticing that there's a chair in the corner I didn't see in another story.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“Nick Flynn is another writer I admire - his fragmented sections, his playfulness with genre, his urgency. The palette in his work is his style, a voice that is singular, and that's what I think writers should strive for, to have a style and a voice that is only theirs.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“We read the world - television, movies, songs, books - and the people in it through the lens of our own lives.”
-- Jill TalbotSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.”
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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
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