Athena Scott
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Athena Scott
Minimalism helps me align my values with my actions. If my actions and my values match up, I know I’m doing it right.
Sometimes, I’ll remember a note I made, and I’ll go hunting through two or three books to find it, and the joy is that I’ll stumble across lots of other forgotten notes in the process. I will only be able to read 79 per cent of my handwriting, which is bizarrely useful because exciting new combinations of words suggest themselves while I’m trying
... See moreKatherine May • How to Keep a Writer’s Notebook
Only write on the right-hand page - leave the left blank. This might sound wasteful, but it’s actually very useful. That left-hand page is for your notes and interjections. It leaves you space to add in anything you missed, or to write in comments and thoughts that occur to you when you re-read. If I’m note-taking from a book, I use the left-hand
... See moreKatherine May • How to Keep a Writer’s Notebook
I write as I breathe, naturally, flowingly, spontaneously, out of an overflow, not as a substitute for life. I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in lovemaking than in writing, more interested in living than in writing. More interested in becoming a work of art than in creating one. I am more interesting than what I... See more
In Defense of the Fluid Self: Why Anaïs Nin Turned Down a Harper’s Bazaar Profile
The joy and enrichment you could derive from a single musical instrument, or a set of paints, is enough to fill a lifetime, and many people have demonstrated that. But those deeper levels are effectively inaccessible without some limit to the splitting of your attention and interest.
David Cain • Go Deeper, Not Wider
having 1-2 hobbies that you go very deep with is better than 5-6 hobbies.
Like Oscar Wilde I put only my art into my work and my genius into my life.