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At the Morningside conference she presented the criterion for a great book she had learned from her classics professor at Brooklyn College, Alice Kober. “You know a great book,” Kober had said, “when the hair stands up on the back of your neck.”
Zena Hitz • The Lamp Magazine | The Practical Wisdom of Eva Brann
But this internecine internet feud is eclipsed, in Lorenz’s reporting, by a shadow thesis of which she seems largely unaware: that the engine for this corporate revolution—this rerouting of business models and marketing campaigns from “connection” to “content creation”—has consistently been white women. White women producers (as mommy bloggers, My... See more
Anna Shechtman • Life in the Algorithm
(Parker also gets credit, correctly, for one of my other favorite lines: “I hate writing. I love having written.”)
Tiffany Shlain • 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
of one.
LaTonya Wilkins • Leading Below the Surface
emotional ambivalence about writing is the norm rather than the exception for most academics.
Helen Sword • Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write
There is a difference between being a skilled writer and a writer who has the skill set of languaging.
Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard
The artist discovers herself by the work she produces.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
I don’t yet realize that what I am doing is honing my empathy—the superpower of all great ghostwriters.