Chekhov's Mistress
Adults Say the Darndest Things
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Top Ten Reasons for preferring to write for children:”
- Children read books, not reviews
- They don’t read to find their identity.
- They don’t read to free themselves from guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation.
- They have no use for psychology.
- They detest sociology.
- They don’t try to understand Kafka or Finnegans Wake.
- They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.
- They love interesting stories, not commentary, guides, or footnotes.
- When a book is boring, they yawn openly.
- They don’t expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity.
From Today in Literature. Link via Rakes Progress, from yesterday. I’m always slow around here, but this was too good.
Read widely, think well, and write often.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: October 06, 2004
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