Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
ADAM GOPNIKOften the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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