What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie
Julie Buxbaum’s debut novel, THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE, has garnered some beautiful reviews. They are all glowing and they all urge readers to pick up this book by a first-time novelist. What has caused me to pick up Julie’s novel are her postings on Red Room, a great site for writers and readers! Here Julie describes her own discovery of Ernest Hemingway’s A MOVEABLE FEAST. I think that Julie’s writing and her own intense exploration into the psyche of other writers is inspiring. Read THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE. Follow Julie’s career because I can tell you, it is going to be a long and successful one. And check out Red Room because it’s “where the writers are.”
“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think ‘Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.’ So finally I would write on true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say…I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline.” -Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
