Reading

One beautiful thing about literature is that it’s a blossoming tree, and each new branch you crack can lead to all sorts of nooks and crannies.

In general, aiming to ‘understand’ or even have concrete takeaways for what you read is getting the cart before the horse. Again, no one wakes up reading Pynchon and converting it to gold; that’s not the point. The point, if there is one, as with looking at a painting, is that you are exposing your mind to being nourished without needing to define ... See more

a poem can be really satisfying to swallow in one bite, and then have echoing in your head while you do other stuff.

Manifesting the proper brainspace to be able to think clearly enough to read and write is probably even more important than having ideas or skill; in fact, the latter would seem to emerge out of the former.

Reading and writing require time yes, but if we’re only able to think of the time in a day as already belonging to someone else, we’re essentially screwed.