Nicholas Andriani

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The Grandeur of Ordinary Life: James Joyce on Literature About You, Me, And Everyone In Between

Mar 26, 2020

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Nicholas Andriani

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What. A. Quote! Now, here we have the a monolith in name, diction, style, form, class, you name it who’s greatest achievement is rekindling the fire of what makes a novel a novel, or bending, no, rewriting the rules of literature and yet despite all that here he is claiming that all he’s written is…
That Settles it, “Writing is Hard.” -Yeats

Mar 6, 2019

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Nicholas Andriani

in #WisdomWednesday, Author, Authors, Blogging, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, Celebrating the Life, Confession, copywriting, education, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, nonfiction, ON WRITING, Poem, poet, Poetry, the writers life, writing

“A line will take us hours maybe, Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, Our stitching and unstitching have been naught. Better go down upon your marrow bones And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather— For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to…