Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
ADAM GOPNIKWomen 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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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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 scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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