I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
ADAM GOPNIKArt 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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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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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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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