"Respond to this quote from Junot Diaz in any manner you please: 'In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.'"
Now I did this a long time ago. Looking at it now, I don't entirely understand what I wrote....But here you go, this was my threefold response:
1. This is one of those sentences that says it is very meaningful but is actually seedless wank.
2. (I circled 'you need' from the quote and did a big bendy arrow to...this:) So someone who is dedicated and plans and works hard? Like today, when I realised I am not a genius writer (in a liberating manner), but that writing could be a job, kept on at: walking up and write and left and one*. (That bit is gibberish, right?) Or someone who is as messed up as the character they are writing about? A la Heath Ledger becoming the joker and dying?
3. This sentence is NOT profound. It is simply so vague and needing meaning that it sucks out our own profundity. (And NO, that is not the same as being profound.)
P.S. Look what I did with Photoshop!
*It could be that I just can't read my own handwriting.
Now I did this a long time ago. Looking at it now, I don't entirely understand what I wrote....But here you go, this was my threefold response:
1. This is one of those sentences that says it is very meaningful but is actually seedless wank.
2. (I circled 'you need' from the quote and did a big bendy arrow to...this:) So someone who is dedicated and plans and works hard? Like today, when I realised I am not a genius writer (in a liberating manner), but that writing could be a job, kept on at: walking up and write and left and one*. (That bit is gibberish, right?) Or someone who is as messed up as the character they are writing about? A la Heath Ledger becoming the joker and dying?
3. This sentence is NOT profound. It is simply so vague and needing meaning that it sucks out our own profundity. (And NO, that is not the same as being profound.)
P.S. Look what I did with Photoshop!
*It could be that I just can't read my own handwriting.
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