“Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience, of consciousness itself. That includes a story, but also the whole expanding universe of sensation and thought ... Memoirists wish to tell their mind. Not their story.” WantMindWholeStoriesUniverseWishConsciousnessFictionSensationsExpandingPersonal ExperiencesFiction WritersExpanding Universe Author:Patricia Hampl
“In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?” FeelsWritingMeanPoetryLiteratureConsciousnessSubjectsStyleStrangeMaterialsIntegrityScenePerceptionAspectRelationCreatorDescriptionSoulfulAbsorptionArticulation Author:Patricia Hampl
“The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.” RealSelfUseConsciousnessSubjectsToolsAutobiography Author:Patricia Hampl
