Post by account_disabled on Dec 11, 2023 3:33:34 GMT
I recently discovered a curious literary blog, Frammenti Del Tredicesimo Mese , where the blogger collects phrases and passages from books and transcribes them. They are all posts focused on writing and I have enjoyed reading several of them. Some of these inspired a sort of column that starts today. In reality it is not a column, it has no periodicity or name, it is just posts created by reflecting on phrases picked up around and which have writing as their theme. In the post Writing is more difficult, a phrase by Marcel Reich-Ranicki is reported, a phrase that makes you reflect and think.
Some time ago I said that writing is suffering, but reading that sentence by Reich-Ranicki goes even deeper into the question: writing is an art that proves more difficult precisely for those Phone Number Data who wield it. I don't see a contradiction in it, even if many will be convinced that it is easy for a writer to write, but in reality with that assertion they do not give the right meaning to writing, or at least they diminish its scope. Because writing isn't just writing. If writing for many is just knowing how to construct sentences and sentences, respecting grammar, having a style that differs from others, in truth writing is knowing how to construct imaginary realities that allow the reader to enter them without difficulty, to love them, to fear them too, to wanting to explore them, as the writer did before.
The idea of the writer as explorer will never leave my head again: exploring new worlds has never been within everyone's reach, it's true, but for those who undertook those journeys, often without return, exploration was a very hard test. Likewise, writing a book is even more difficult for the writer who writes it than for someone who will never write it. And here is another reason in favor of the difficulty of writing: those who don't write admire those who write and are convinced that it is easy for the writer to write; those who don't write think it's difficult for them, but in reality it's simple: because they don't try and will never try. It's easy to do nothing, harder to act. It's easy not to write, more difficult to do so.
Some time ago I said that writing is suffering, but reading that sentence by Reich-Ranicki goes even deeper into the question: writing is an art that proves more difficult precisely for those Phone Number Data who wield it. I don't see a contradiction in it, even if many will be convinced that it is easy for a writer to write, but in reality with that assertion they do not give the right meaning to writing, or at least they diminish its scope. Because writing isn't just writing. If writing for many is just knowing how to construct sentences and sentences, respecting grammar, having a style that differs from others, in truth writing is knowing how to construct imaginary realities that allow the reader to enter them without difficulty, to love them, to fear them too, to wanting to explore them, as the writer did before.
The idea of the writer as explorer will never leave my head again: exploring new worlds has never been within everyone's reach, it's true, but for those who undertook those journeys, often without return, exploration was a very hard test. Likewise, writing a book is even more difficult for the writer who writes it than for someone who will never write it. And here is another reason in favor of the difficulty of writing: those who don't write admire those who write and are convinced that it is easy for the writer to write; those who don't write think it's difficult for them, but in reality it's simple: because they don't try and will never try. It's easy to do nothing, harder to act. It's easy not to write, more difficult to do so.