Lauren Crichton
@laurencrichton
Lauren Crichton
Now the writer, as I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of this reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us. So at least I infer from reading Lear or Emma or A la recherche du temps perdu. For the reading of these books seems to perform a curious couching operation on... See more
Live at enmity with unreality
Move like you're late and wait like you're early.
Farnam St
An advanced city is not one where the poor can get around by car, but one where even the rich use public transportation.
– Enrique Peñalosa
In The Left Hand of Darkness, Le Guin writes:
As they say in Ekumenical School, when action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Which is another way of saying, when you can’t write, read. When you can’t read, sleep
“We should so live that we will not regret years of useless virtue, and inertia, and timidity, and ignorance” 🤍
- Dr Maya Angelou
@drmayaangelou
Full clip is on YouTube:
“Interview with Maya Angelou”
At Jennifer Page
@jenniferpagewrites
instagram.comThe best are always learning.
Read like crazy.
Think alone.
Keep a journal.
Write stuff down the moment you see it.
Review regularly.
Memorize the big ideas to fluency.
Attack your best ideas.
And never get high on your own supply.
You don't have to be gifted. You do have to be deliberate.
FS Blog
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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