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Writing is the great invention of the world.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Writing Is The Great Invention Of The

Abraham Lincoln
Writing is the great invention of the world.
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So you want another story?" uhh... no. we would like to know what really happened." doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" uhh... perhaps in english. in japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. we don't want any invention. we want the 'straight facts,' as you say in english." isn't telling about something--using words, english or japanese--already something of an invention? isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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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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Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, i as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. it's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.
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Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.
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Over the years, i have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. by definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. if the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.
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But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay; invention, nature's child, fled stepdame study's blows; and others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "fool," said my muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.
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