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Sarah Kornfeld

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Sarah Kornfeld is an American author, playwright, and producer. Her play, THE LOVEDEATH OF CLOWNS was produced at the iconic Theater For The New City in New York. Her debut novel, WHAT STELLA SEES was published in 2018 and received high praise in the United States and the United Kingdom. Her writing has been featured in independent literary journals including Vol.1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, and Heavy Feather Review.

Her forthcoming narrative non-fiction book, THE TRUE is published by Editura Integral and will be launched at the National Theater Festival of Bucharest/UNITER in November of 2021. The True is being published in Romanian, English, and French. The book will be solid in a box-set of all three languages in 2021-2022 with the titl
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Sarah Kornfeld Honestly, don't write. Well, not forever. Don't put the metaphoric pen down and walk -- just let yourself really stop "writing" and daydream. We're ta…moreHonestly, don't write. Well, not forever. Don't put the metaphoric pen down and walk -- just let yourself really stop "writing" and daydream. We're taught that writing is typing, I don't believe it's the case, imagination is the engine of writing. So, lie down on a red couch (pretend it's red, that's fine) and allow yourself to think and dream. Do that for a while. Have some coffee. Words will come.(less)
Sarah Kornfeld Do not listen to your inner voice that says, No. Do not listen to the external voices that say, No. Just listen to the language and the story in you, …moreDo not listen to your inner voice that says, No. Do not listen to the external voices that say, No. Just listen to the language and the story in you, and write it down...simply write it down. I wish you the greatest love and luck with your writing!(less)
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Do we write better in Paris? Or, how David Sedaris taught me to get a life.

Paris

When I sat down to write WHAT STELLA SEES I think I just wanted to go to Paris.

I got the books off the shelf, those travel books that cost more than the trip, and put them on my desk. I looked at the color red, a lot. I imagined being there, the smell and the rain. In other words, I was "writing" without typing, I was escaping without a story.

Then I started to write and I could not place the c

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“she had come to believe her very mind was toxic—because the sea had become toxic. She did not know how to explain the interconnection between herself and the water: how they were connected as one, and how she was a living example of a poisoned planet.”
Sarah Kornfeld, What Stella Sees

“That moment between them was the first one where their bodies did not hurt, and the reprieve from pain was so erotic that it made Stella feel like an orange suddenly peeled—all the sections of her opened up to be eaten.”
Sarah Kornfeld, What Stella Sees

“She yanked up the file, her notebook, and purse in one swoop. She let the magazine by her foot lie there open, and pushed her heel into its center as she left. The waiting room breathed a deep sigh of relief as she left.”
Sarah Kornfeld, What Stella Sees

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.”
Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.”
David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.”
Grace Paley

“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”
Grace Paley

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin




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