Spinning
Sunday, March 2, 2008
This morning, I (caught inside a decision I didn't imagine myself having to make about a book I thought I'd finished writing) study these words from Larry Woiwode's new memoir, A STEP FROM DEATH:
"So I learned you had to trust in the organic nature and structure of the story or novel, as all good editors do, or you shear away its potential to be original."
And this:
"There is a barbarity in the compression a word can assume, holding a soul of multiple meanings, as with a person, in its inner space. The meanings meld into the meanings of the surrounding words, suggesting meanings I didn't mean to suggest, and a typeset page stares back with such clarity, once a book is out, I recoil at passages as I would a toad."
