“Woe-is-me is not an attractive narrative.”
Maureen Dowd
more infosource: “A Storyteller Loses the Story Line,” The New York Times, June 1, 2010.
category: narrative, self-pity, story
medium: Op-Ed
“As a work gets more autobiographical, more intimate, more confessional, more embarrassing, it breaks into fragments. Our lives aren’t prepackaged along narrative lines and, therefore, by its very nature, reality-based art—underprocessed, underproduced—splinters and explodes.”
David Shields
more infosource: David Shields, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), 27.
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category: autobiography, creative process, life, narrative, writing
medium: nonfiction
narrative