I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
ADAM GOPNIKDrawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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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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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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 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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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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