Gary Shteyngart Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Mean, Writing, Personality

• Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, Heart, Ifs

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.34, Granta Books

• Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, Breathe, Immigrants

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, People, Subway

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, Voice, Six

  "'Little Failure' Gary Shteyngart on Immigrant Parents and 'Going Memoir'". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January 3, 2014.

• The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, Way, Right Now

• After you publish a book, you become a writer and you're supposed to take it very seriously. You're supposed to show up at your desk - although frankly, I don't have a desk, I write in bed - you're supposed to show up at your bed and produce work. I think it's a little bit like work. I like to have fun with it, do things like make silly book trailers. I don't want to take this too seriously.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Fun, Silly, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• One of the goals of analysis is you become your own analyst. You continue the process even if you're not in therapy, whether you continue the process by walking down the street thinking about things or whether you continue the process, as I do, by writing about them.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, Thinking, Goal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Usually, with a novel, you start with no idea what to do because your job is to create convincing characters and then they just run around getting crazy. The problem with writing a memoir, obviously, is you can't do that because you sort of know what's going to happen. Because you're the character.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Running, Crazy, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.

  Gary Shteyngart

  New York, Nice, Coffee

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