Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and … - Charles D'Ambrosio

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that's what I do: I do not use auto-tune!

Charles D'Ambrosio

Even with an assignment, I take over, I find a freedom and make the idea my own, and that's where you get the sense that the essays become something very different than the original subject. Assignments are great, though - they test your mettle, your spirit and resilience. All of sudden you drop in, you don't know anything, you're vulnerable and available.

Assignment, Different, Resilience, Spirit, Subject

Same Author Quotes

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

Chaos, Hands, Hurt, Hurts, Somebody

We need to be ambivalent - in the essay, and in life too. Ambivalence - having mixed feelings, entertaining contradiction, living with fluctuation - is a widened embrace. It's about the coexistence of things, and in that light, we have no choice in the matter.

Choices, Coexistence, Contradiction, Feelings, Fluctuation, Living

What the nostalgic past and the imaginary future seem to share in common is a form of idealism, perhaps a dream of wholeness. Our future is just as goopy with sentiment as our past. To me, they're the same, both very tempting, and I don't believe in either, although the idealism is probably important.

Believe, Dream, Imaginary, Nostalgic, Past, Wholeness

Our nostalgic dreams of perfection thrive just as dangerously in the other direction too, in the imaginary future, that bold and tantalizing future where the troubles of today will be cured by a tomorrow, and all our losses will be recouped, our problems solved, our lives restored, our people made whole again, etc.

Dream, Dreams, Loss, Nostalgic, People, Thrive

I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.

Differently, Drawer, Essays, Kick, Lots, World