Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
ADAM GOPNIKMen choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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