Thinking Quotes by Elliott Colla

Elliott Colla

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there’s a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn’t feel exactly right, I don’t care. But that is not okay to do in academia – it’s not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I’ve been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia – there’s no place for that!

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I think if I’d gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

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Take Ezra Pound’s translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn’t really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up with aren’t all successful, but as a whole it’s incredibly successful, moving us away from familiar forms and indicating other forms we might think in or express in.

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Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn’t matter whether it’s American TV or British TV. And there’s entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

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Thinking Quotes by Elliott Colla

I think if I’d gone to an MFA program and learned that, it would have been money well spent. But translation has been that for me.

Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn’t matter whether it’s American TV or British TV. And there’s entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

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