Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
ADAM GOPNIKWe call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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