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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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