Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
ADAM GOPNIKOf all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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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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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 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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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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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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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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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