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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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All Good Writing Is Swimming Under Water

F. Scott Fitzgerald
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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I remember a story i once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. that's how i feel, as though everything has been turned around.
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You don't want to spend your time around people who make you hold your breath. you can't fill up when you're holding your breath. and writing is about filling up, filling up when you are empty, letting images and ideas and smells run down like water - just as writing is also about dealing with the emptiness.
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Po swirled upward from where it had been sitting, and floated over to the window. "when you go swimming and you put your head under the water," po said, "and everything is strange and underwater-sounding, and strange and underwater-looking, you don't miss the air do you? you don't miss the above-water sounds and the above-water look. it's just different." "true." liesl was quiet for a moment. then she added, "but i bet you'd miss it if you were drowning. i bet you'd really miss the air then."
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. in that water is placed a jar filled with water. there is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. the 'i' is the jar.
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I have a hard time writing. most writers have a hard time writing. i have a harder time than most because i'm lazier than most. [...] the other problem i have is fear of writing. the act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why i think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. all the time i'm not writing i feel like a criminal. [...] it's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. especially when it goes on for years. it's much more relaxing actually to work.
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It was like letting go and falling back into water and seeing yourself grinning up through the water, your face like a mask, and seeing the bubbles coming up as if you were trying to speak from under the water. and how do you know what it's like to try to speak from under water when you're drowned?
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