A presentation at The Web Is in in Cardiff, UK by Owen Gregory
Read/write
Except that it isn’t.
To write: to try meticulously to retain something, to cause something to survive; to wrest a few precise scraps from the void as it grows, to leave somewhere a furrow, a trace, a mark or a few signs. — Georges Perec
Georges Perec “Tentative de description d’un programme de travail pour les années à venir”
When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort. — Sally Kerrigan
Write about obscure things but don’t write obscurely. — W G Sebald
Get off the main thoroughfares; you’ll see nothing there. — W G Sebald
Sir Thomas Browne Musæum Clausum, or Biblioteca Abscondita; and The Garden of Cyrus
W G Sebald Die Ringe des Saturn
Writing is about discovering things hitherto unseen. Otherwise there’s no point to the process. — W G Sebald
Frank Chimero “What Screens Want”
Wilson Miner “When We Build”
By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment. — W G Sebald
Words are innocent. By using them without imagination, it’s us who make them hateful. — Umberto Eco
Learn to recognize the approach of an ending, and when one appears, grab it. — Paul Graham
Thank you
for free. You
can too.