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Super excited Marie Lu fans at their book signing! . #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament)

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“I think most critics know to keep their distance from the people they write about. I think if they’re professional enough, they’d not bother you about the reviews you write too.” - Dennis Lim • “The editors have a lot more of a role in what goes out, largely because they’re kinda like ventriloquists. They choose the critics to write the reviews and they kind of know what the critics they choose will write.” - John Mateer • “Critics are minds reading other minds. When we read the critic, we are a mind reading a mind reading other minds.” - Li-Young Lee • [SWF 20: The Role of a Critic] • #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament)

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“The key to writing is to reach a level of authenticity that you don’t usually show in real life... Like how you can kiss all the people you want to kiss or slap all the people you want to slap... Everything that you were taught in your childhood taught not to go there. What’s embarrassing in real life can be very liberating in writing.” • “When I write I don’t really think of writing a story of an Israeli or Jewish person. With me, I was never really good with differentiating these things.. At the core I deal with things that are very universal. About thinking in my language... yeah there’s something about the language to create the story... One thing I can’t deal with [in my stories] though is arbitrariness.” • Etgar Keret, [The Absurdity of Everyday Life] • #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament)

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CLOSING DEBATE TICKETS • Hi everyone, a gentle reminder to head to Victoria Theatre to get your tickets now while they’re still available! • #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider (at Victoria Theatre Singapore)

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Dennis Lim in the house discussing the cultural impact of David Lynch’s films and his filmmaking style. • “Eraser head was the film that put Lynch on the map, it played for years as a midnight movie in NY, in Paris...” • “The thing to remember about Lynch is that he started as a painter.. and painters have complete control over what they do. That’s not the case in filmmaking. By necessity, filmmaking is a collaborative process. So he struggled a bit with that.” • #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider #dennislim #davidlynch (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament)

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“I thought to myself, would anything change if this character was female? And the answer is no. The motivations remain the same, the character development arc remains the same... I do surround myself with women who’d call me out on this sexist bullshit. My publishing team is full of women who’d call me out on them.” - Jay Kristoff • “There is no one experience that is any more authentic than another’s. There’s no hierarchy to this.” - Marjorie Liu • “Even for cultural gender stereotypes. Like in the yin and yang concept - how yin is ascribed to women and yang is ascribed to men. I would really question that. Because everyone of us has yin and yang within us.” - Lydia Kwa • [Superheroines: Female Protagonists in Speculative Fiction] • #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider #speculativefiction (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament)

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More highlights from Day 9 - Stella So's Drawing Urban Landscape Tour; So going over each participants' sketch piece after the walk and sketch tour around Empress Place • Epic International Reading Night 2 • #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider

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“I think I’m actually a very optimistic person. We’ve changed the world in talking about violence... people always ask me why I talk about violence and how I shouldn’t talk about violence.. but no, look at feminist movements, class struggles, queer movements. All these movements are talking about violence... It’s in talking more about violence that we can create more beauty in the world we live in.” • "What I wanted was for my father to not be ashamed of me. That was my only dream." — recalling his harrowing childhood and the dream that kept him going • [Edouard Louis: The True Story of a Survivor] • #sgwritersfest #swf2017 #swfaram #swfinsider #edouardlouis (at The Arts House at The Old Parliament)