on reading and writing
diving into the universe of language
on reading and writing
Have you ever thought about the way drawing and writing are connected? ✏️
Senior Curator of International Art, Nabila Abdel Nabi, guides us through the Shape of Words display at Tate Modern, revealing how artists around the world transformed words, letters and calligraphy into powerful new forms of abstraction.... See more
instagram.comOnce again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
Animal Farm • Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to... See more
Animal Farm • Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation
I didn’t feel comfortable inside the endlessness of it. I am the kind of writer who believes in taking the time I need to come up with something worth saying. I work quickly but I don’t always work - and that’s because the thoughts are in my slow cooker and the timer hasn’t gone off. Once the timer goes off, I know exactly what I will serve on the... See more
Jeanette Winterson • I GUESS IT'S TIME TO COME BACK
Doris Lessing on reading:
“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that
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