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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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.
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