Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
When I first started to write, I was alone. My first husband had left me, I was homesick, my parents had disowned me because I had married so young and divorced. I just wrote to—to go home. It was like a place to be where I felt I was safe. And so I write to fix a reality.
Adrian Zupp • Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
“Give up trying to create something sophisticated,” I told myself. “Why not forget all those prescriptive ideas about ‘the novel’ and ‘literature’ and set down your feelings and thoughts as they come to you, freely, in a way that you like?”
‘I want to open a window in their souls’: Haruki Murakami on the power of writing simply
In some ways it's easier to try to be the best than to try merely to be good.
Paul Graham • How to Do Great Work
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youtube.comWe did little better than Ivan Ilyich’s primitive nineteenth-century doctors—worse, actually, given the new forms of physical torture we’d inflicted on our patient. It is enough to make you wonder, who are the primitive ones.
Excerpt From Being Mortal Atul Gawande
Constraints give your life shape. Remove them and most people have no idea what to do: look at what happens to those who win lotteries or inherit money. Much as everyone thinks they want financial security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but those who like what they do. So a plan that promises freedom at the expense of knowing what... See more
paulgraham.com • How to Do What You Love
Stop escaping. Come back to reality. Stay on the path.