Quote of the Day | 0922
Very few of us write well straight out of the gate. Precocity is more common among poets, perhaps for the simple reason that poems are shorter than stories and novels. Most poetry is built on the flash, the glimpse, the stab of insight, whereas fiction is a kind of beaverish gnawing away, and the greater length makes the youthful weaknesses of the write more apparent. To sustain something over a period of time requires a different, and probably an older, more stoic temperament.
Tobias Wolff, ‘The Art of Fiction No. 183’, in Paris Review
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