Lauren Crichton
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Lauren Crichton
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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Get your poems out of your notes app before the chance disappears tonight. Submissions for the November 14th Publishing Prize close at midnight, and one poet will be chosen for a truly life-changing grand prize: a 100% rights & royalties global publishing deal, a full year to write their book, and complete marketing support to bring it into the... See more
instagram.comSome years ago I was given a life-changing nugget of travel advice: if you visit the same café, bar, or restaurant, at the same time of day, for three days in a row, you are (more often than not) magically transmuted from tourist to temporary local.
And, amazingly, the trick works at every scale. In the aftermath of Covid, I took coffee and... See more
And, amazingly, the trick works at every scale. In the aftermath of Covid, I took coffee and... See more
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This seems obvious once you state it, but it took me a long time to understand. I knew I wanted to write for smart people about important topics. I noticed empirically that I seemed to be writing for the young. But it took me years to understand that the latter was an automatic consequence of the former. In fact I only really figured it out as I... See more
“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
The Red Hand Files
If I was a bird, what bird would I be? Am I a cottage with a wraparound porch or a mansion? What about colour: blue, pink, lemon? Would I be a pearl earring or a hoop? A pine tree or an oak? A lake or the Mediterranean Sea?