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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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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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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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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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 is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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 World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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