Sean Rose
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Sean Rose
Poet Mary Oliver on allowing yourself to be happy and full: "If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. ...whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb."
Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Cormac McCarthy • No Country for Old Men
I still bought many books, but more and more I read in them, rather than being whisked away by them. At some time impossible to pinpoint, I had begun to read more to be informed than to be immersed, much less to be transported.
Maryanne Wolf • Reader, Come Home
INTERVIEWER Some people say they can’t understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What approach would you suggest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.
Jean Stein • The Art of Fiction No. 12
Writer James Baldwin on hate as a defense mechanism: "I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."
This, then, is the key sleight-of-hand at the heart of our psychosocial problems: We pretend we’re in charge, both to others and even to ourselves, but we’re less in charge than we think. We pose as privileged insiders, when in fact we’re often making the same kind of educated guesses that any informed outsider could make. We claim to know our own
... See moreRobin Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
“But every writer is also a reader—I end up reading the text several times while I’m rewriting it.” In a mechanical sense, yes, you’re reading the text. But you’re not reading it for the same reasons as your readers will: to learn and possibly be persuaded.
Always be asking yourself: what does my reader want? Because your reader is q... See more
Always be asking yourself: what does my reader want? Because your reader is q... See more
Who is typography for? | Butterick’s Practical Typography
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw