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...find yourself conscious of readers while you write? Is it possible for a writer to completely disregard readers while writing? Mahtot Teka, ADDIS ABABA All the authors who say they write for themselves are liars. Writing is an act of communication, it's an act of love, it's something you do in order to be understood...
...high-altitude derring-do. In 1999, he and a partner, Brian Jones, became the first people to circumnavigate the earth in a balloon, but it rankled Piccard that doing so required burning nearly four tons of propane gas. "The balloon flight was a personal dream, the last thing to write in the history books before the end of the 20th century," says Piccard, whose father and grandfather were legendary ballooning and diving adventurers. "This project is more difficult and more useful: we want to share a state of mind...
...tried to comfort him, but we both realized the best course was to get back to visiting the tents - and the hardships - of others. When it was time to leave the camp for the final time, I told Dani to keep studying English, and I promised to write. Watching him wipe away tears, I figured this goodbye reminded him of the one two months earlier with his father. Less clear was why a reporter long used to meeting victims of misfortune suddenly felt like crying...
...Often, we write these books because we go to the shelf and they’re not there,” she said. But in this case, “It was a long, long time before I went to a shelf and didn’t find this book there—I didn’t know to look...
Vendler said that she decided to write the book, which is about the way Yeats employs form in poetry, because of a gap in the current literature...