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.
ADAM GOPNIKI think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
More Adam Gopnik Quotes
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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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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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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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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.
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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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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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