Search results for “Ray Bradbury”
Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost NYU Lecture on What It Takes to Be a Writer, Animated
“Nothing means anything — except the artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole, though no such holes exist.”
The American Scholar: Emerson’s Superb Speech on the Life of the Mind, the Art of Creative Reading, and the Building Blocks of Genius
“Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.”
Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth
“The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know…”
Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination
“The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
The Island of Knowledge: How to Live with Mystery in a Culture Obsessed with Certainty and Definitive Answers
“We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.”
The New Age of Wonder: Freeman Dyson on the Future of Science and Why Biologists Are the New Poets
“A new generation of artists, writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses, might create an abundance of new flowers and fruit and trees and birds to enrich the ecology of our planet.”
Hunter S. Thompson on Violence, Vengeance, and the Only True Fix for Our Destructive Impulses
“One of the most important things is to recognize that we do have this mounting violence in us, and then to find the reasons.”
Elizabeth Gilbert on Inspiration, What Tom Waits Taught Her About Creativity, and the Most Dangerous Myth for Artists to Believe
“It’s a relationship, it’s a conversation, and all [the muse] wants is to be treated with respect and dignity — and it will return ten thousand times over.”
Creative Courage for Young Hearts: 15 Emboldening Picture Books Celebrating the Lives of Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists
Jane Goodall, Julia Child, Pablo Neruda, Marie Curie, E.E. Cummings, Albert Einstein, Ella Fitzgerald, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Frida Kahlo, and more.
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