“If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business.” IfsWritingStoriesSensationsApprehensionSwagger Author:A. M. Rosenthal
“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