teaching writing, on the other hand, is something i don t really think one can do. i think it s very important for young writers to have guidance and that s something different but these are people who are already committed to trying to become writers and they want some help about, say, how why doesn t the story that i ve written work? , why is this poem not succeeding? , and then you as, an older writer, can say, all right. let s look at it and we can figure out where you went wrong and what you might be able to do. but i sorry to interrupt, but i m just thinking about so many young people today who have deep sort of creative urges but are not necessarily turning to fiction writing, the novel, as a platform. they re being reared in a world where actually, words are mostly used on their smartphone, are mostly used in bite size chunks on social media
but this uselessness, i think, is the very definition of what makes human life so exciting to live, is because we do have this ability to think and to reflect on what we are thinking and to think about the world and to make art out of that. and to value beauty. but it exactly but it doesn t have any concrete purpose in life in the way that all these practical occupations do. teaching writing, on the other hand, is something i don t really think one can do. i think it s very important for young writers to have guidance and that s something different but these are people who are already committed to trying to become writers and they want some help about, say, how why doesn t the story that i ve written work? , why is this poem not succeeding? , and then you as, an older writer, can say, all right.
teaching writing, on the other hand, is something i don t really think one can do. i think it s very important for young writers to have guidance and that s something different but these are people who are already committed to trying to become writers and they want some help about, say, how why doesn t the story that i ve written work? , why is this poem not succeeding? , and then you as, an older writer, can say, all right. let s look at it and we can figure out where you went wrong and what you might be able to do. but i sorry to interrupt, but i m just thinking about so many young people today who have deep sort of creative urges but are not necessarily turning to fiction writing, the novel, as a platform. they re being reared in a world where actually, words are mostly used on their smartphone, are mostly used in bite size chunks on social media platforms, and i m just wondering whether paul auster in 2021 worries that the next generation or the generation after that o