Gary Shteyngart Quotes About Writing

• No seas pretencioso es mi primer consejo a los jóvenes escritores. Éste es el gran problema: sólo porque vayas a obtener un MFA no significa que tengas que escribir para la Academia. Sé fiel a tu personalidad. No moderes tu personalidad con palabras. No construyas fortalezas defensivas a tu alrededor con palabras - las palabras son tus amigas.

  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

• 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

  Fuente: 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

  Escribir, Pensar, Objetivo

  Fuente: 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

  Correr, Locura, Escribir

  Fuente: 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

• Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, Breathe, Immigrants

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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