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Criticism is not some inscrutable, mysterious process. It’s just a matter of: (1) noticing ourselves responding to a work of art, moment by moment, and (2) getting better at articulating that response.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Humility is asserting your needs and guarding your serenity. It is being. It’s just being. Being and letting be.
Writing with humility—with your whole, earthen self and for other earthen selves—is writing with empathy. It’s writing with and toward uncertainty and curiosity. It’s not lecturing, preening, or self-justifying. It’s resisting the... See more
Writing with humility—with your whole, earthen self and for other earthen selves—is writing with empathy. It’s writing with and toward uncertainty and curiosity. It’s not lecturing, preening, or self-justifying. It’s resisting the... See more