As some of you know, this autumn I will begin studying English Literature and Creative Writing at Warwick (third uni in the country, aw yeah).This week I got my first books from the reading list (and pretty much the only ones from it that can be found in Tallinn libraries). I’m currently reading The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, written by David Morley, my future lecturer. And I'm finding it truly captivating (thank God). Also, in it I’ve found quite a few points I made in my online interview – meaning I was right in my guesses!
Here are some wise and inspiring words from the book:
‘No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I knew.’ – Robert Frost
Writers use reading as a type of caffeine, rather than a lotus blossom.
‘A writer’s ambition should be to trade one hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years time and for one in one hundred years.’ – Arthur Koestler
‘The bestseller lists are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.’ – Carlos Fuentes
Writers must not fool themselves – except when they are writing.
The first semester starts on 4 October. I don't know how much time I’ll have to blog after that. There’s loads of reading and writing to be done for classes, and hopefully lots of distracting activities as well. Last night I read the list of societies they have, and now feel that I need to join several of them. Like Art Soc with life drawing classes and trips to museums and galleries, and Warwick French Society with annual trips to Paris and to the West End to see Les Mis, and Aesthet(h)ics with creative workshops, vintage shopping trips and trips to London Fashion Week and The Ethical Fashion Show in Milan (no idea how I could afford any of these trips, to be honest, but don’t they seem great!), and Shisha Society and Good Food Society etc etc.
Can't wait!
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