Caroline Mays

Because of the 20 years he’s been cultivating his ability in the craft of writing, what he thinks to do is just different from what I would think to do. I’ve seen the differences in what people get out of AI. The people who can get the best out of it need it the least.

My process is that I’m constantly reading, listening, and watching things. I do all my reading with physical books, so I have a pen in hand and I’m making notes in the margins. Once I finish a book, I put it aside for a bit and then go back through it with the note cards. Anything that holds up as interesting or potentially useful I write on a... See more

I was a huge fan of the comic journalist Ronson, and his book Them

“Montaigne, the great French philosopher, adopted these seventeen words as the motto of his life: ‘A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.’ And our opinion of what happens is entirely up to us.”

Writers serve the public as historians of vibe: they tell us what it feels like to be here, now.

"Let us ask the gods not for possessions, but for things to do; happiness is in making things rather than in consuming them. In Utopia, said Thoreau, each would build his own home; and then song would come back to the heart of man, as it comes to the bird when it builds its nest. If we cannot build our homes, we can at least walk and throw and run;... See more