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That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

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A favorite strategy was the paragraph-terminating: Right? Followed immediately by Wrong. This linear invitation to a mugging was considered a strategy of wit.

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There is a difference, of course, between real sentiment and the trash of shared experience.

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Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway.

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The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress.

Renata Adler

Renata Adler

Renata Adler

Born: October 19, 1937 (age 87)

Bio: Renata Adler is an American author, journalist and film critic.

Known for:

Speedboat (1976)
Pitch Dark (1983)
After the Tall Timber: Collected Nonfiction (2015)
Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker (1999)

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