Word: writes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director, Alan Parker, worked with Laura Jones to write the screenplay, and the film is very faithful to the book--too faithful, perhaps. Like a complex organ hymn being plinked out on an electric keyboard, the film plays the same basic melody as the memoir but fails to bring out the nuances of McCourt's writing, while these nuances are precisely what made Angela's Ashes a great work rather than a mere string of anecdotes...
...Gordimer herself begs pardon, in this collection's first essay: nothing I write in such factual pieces will be as true as my fiction. What is appropriately important to her is emotional truth, words that somehow resonate inside the reader. Hemingway used to assure himself that if he could write one true sentence, he was on the right track: it is this kind of truth that is meaningful to the writer of fiction, truth to the spirit. The problem is, this is also the kind of truth that needs to be important to the writer of the kind of nonfiction...
...would be so ergonomically perfect that you would be like oh, this is heaven....There are parts of me that want to jump out and go to Hollywood and pretend to be an actor for awhile. There are parts of me that want to sit down and write screenplays...
...Crimson were a high school cafeteria, those who edit and write for FM would be sitting at the "cool kids table." If The Crimson were a department store, FM would be the designer display. If The Crimson were a major movie studio, FM would be the irreverent, indy subdivision...
...write this because the athletes here at Harvard have it rough and we should all pity them. Not at all. There are advantages and disadvantages that come with playing a sport...