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I think Your Correspondent wants to encourage Mice to not try and live for the sake of writing, but to hold back on judgement and focus on living, listening, feeling and seeing what is in front of him.
I think that's what I used to do, and it felt wrong:
But still, one thing comes to my mind which is antithetical to me being a writer: it still feels forced. I want to be a writer. I want to write about something interesting. So I do all these things like observing people and taking notes. But since my thinking has adapted to my writing, I am not sure if I am still being authentic in some moments. Am I still living or am I just thinking to write, so I can write to think?
I wasn't sure what to make of it. I kept thinking: "Is this just how it is to be a writer, or am I doing something wrong?"
Again, thanks to you and your link, I now know that yes, I was doing something wrong. Thank you!!
This turned out to be a real gem.
I remember also him saying that he doesn't like to think about his projects unless he is in the act of writing, because it takes the air out of his tires. I can't remember if it was in the same article, but it seems to explain a little more about his philosophy.
Yes, it was mentioned!
Always stop when you are going good and donʼt think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.
Every language has its own music. I also remember hearing that Hemingway was interested in the Germanic roots of English, I think in the interest of paring down his prose to be as direct and short as possible (many of the more erudite words came from the French/Latin aristocratic influence.)
I ordered Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung (English: The Metamorphosis) a few days ago. I read that translating Kafka is hard. Fortunately, I grew up in Germany. Really looking forward to seeing if I can notice this quality of Kafka:
Subject, object, and verb, always close together in English, tend to become spread out in German, so much so that you often have to read until the very end of the sentence to see where the author is going — a quality Kafka uses time and again to play with tone, irony, and suspense.
I can't remember the last time I read something in German.
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I'm glad you could take something from it. It is a fantastic quote.
Yes, I believe it would be. If I recall correctly the part you are referring to, I think Your Correspondent wants to encourage Mice to not try and live for the sake of writing, but to hold back on judgement and focus on living, listening, feeling and seeing what is in front of him. I remember also him saying that he doesn't like to think about his projects unless he is in the act of writing, because it takes the air out of his tires. I can't remember if it was in the same article, but it seems to explain a little more about his philosophy.
Every language has its own music. I also remember hearing that Hemingway was interested in the Germanic roots of English, I think in the interest of paring down his prose to be as direct and short as possible (many of the more erudite words came from the French/Latin aristocratic influence.)