Minsuk Kang 강민석
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Minsuk Kang 강민석
Books that are “representative,” that are more easily “absorbed,” undermine the main reason to read them: to push readers beyond themselves in uncomfortable and productive ways.
Ruby LaRocca • A Constitution for Teenage Happiness
If someone says I have spinach between my teeth, I’m suicidal. But if someone criticizes my writing I’m fine, because it’s mine. So I’m all right. Even if a magazine editor complains that my story is “too small,” then I may get cross, but it’s still my story .
Adrian Zupp • Lucia Berlin: Writing Advice and More in This Never-Before Published Interview
James Clear • Haters and Critics: How to Deal with People Judging You and Your Work
I want [the Mac] to be as beautiful as possible, even if it’s inside the box. A great carpenter isn’t going to use lousy wood for the back of a cabinet, even though nobody’s going to see it.
- Steve Jobs (via Walter Isaacson)
The Cheap Web
I think that every writer should have a question they can ask that there is no end to the pursuit of. Every writer should have questions big enough and pressing enough and multi-faceted enough and unanswerable enough that they occupy their entire life, however long or short it is
Jenny Zhang on writing the secret languages inside your head
A friend of mine who is a quite successful doctor complains constantly about her job. When people applying to medical school ask her for advice, she wants to shake them and yell "Don't do it!" (But she never does.) How did she get into this fix? In high school she already wanted to be a doctor. And she is so ambitious and determined that she... See more