Lucas Mann Quotes

• La idea de no ser exactamente como escribes es crucial. Incluso mirando esas palabras mientras las escribo, me siento sucia, como si estuviera admitiendo algo. Por desgracia, creo que la conversación en torno a la no ficción suele ser así: defensiva o acusatoria. ¡Ajá! ¡Te han pillado! Pero la esencia original de algo siempre se pierde cuando se reproduce.

  Lucas Mann

  Dirty, Writing, Thinking

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• Lately I've been thinking about the idea that all novels are, at least in some way, about the process of writing a novel - that the construction of the book and the lineage of people constructing novels are always part of the story the author is telling. I think the equivalent for memoir should be that all memoirs are, in some way, about the process of memory. Memoirs are made out of a confusing, flawed act of creation.

  Lucas Mann

  Memories, Book, Writing

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• There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.

  Lucas Mann

  Crush, Important, Emptiness

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• Walter Benjamin talks about art losing its original "aura" in an age of mechanical reproduction. In writing memoir, we're taking something that happened in a particular moment and meant something at that time, and we're trying to capture it to mass reproduce it for readers. So of course something is lost. And when we edit that material, we're getting even further from that aura, but toward something else that is potentially vital.

  Lucas Mann

  Art, Writing, Age

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• I came to nonfiction through journalism. My first book was journalism, and it was so frustrating to me, while I was writing it, that I wasn't capturing the moments the way they were when I lived them; I was filtering and re-filtering. I had to come to terms with the fact that I couldn't and shouldn't claim authenticity. Then, when the book was published and I gave readings, I'd hear myself read and it was like I was eavesdropping on a dream - even with myself as the narrator. I knew that guy but couldn't exactly recognize him.

  Lucas Mann

  Sueño, Lectura, Libro

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• For better or worse, I seem to gravitate toward writing about something or someone else, then have my own self shove its way into that story. It seems insanely narcissistic. But I also think there's a particular effect that comes from using my autobiography in service to another story, as opposed to being the subject. I'm much more comfortable working in that mode. And I do think I have a persona or mood that I keep coming back to: self-conscious, self-critical, unsure. I write a lot about bodies, particularly male ones, usually as a point of emphasis for my insecurities about my own.

  Lucas Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Insecurity

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• After writing anything, there's always that postpartum feeling of, "What do I do now?" - I think particularly for nonfiction writers. I feel myself pulled back to the same themes, sometimes even the same moments, and I'm not sure that I want that.

  Lucas Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

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