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Elevating Resolutions for the New Year Inspired by Some of Humanity’s Greatest Minds
Cultivate honorable relationships, resist absentminded busyness, tell the world how to treat you, embrace enoughness, and more.
Louise Bourgeois on Art, Integrity, the Trap of False Humility, and the Key to Creative Confidence
“To be an artist is a guarantee to your fellow humans that the wear and tear of living will not let you become a murderer.”
The Subterranean River of Emotion: Cheryl Strayed on Writing, the Art of Living with Opposing Truths, and the Three Ancient Motifs in All Great Storytelling
“When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.”
The Art of Motherfuckitude: Cheryl Strayed’s Advice to an Aspiring Writer on Faith and Humility
“Writing is hard for every last one of us… Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
Ongoingness: Sarah Manguso on Time, Memory, Beginnings and Endings, and the True Measure of Aliveness
“Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments — an inability to accept life as ongoing.”
The 15 Best Books of 2015
Rewarding reflections on time, love, loss, courage, creativity, and other transformations of the heart.
Oliver Sacks on Storytelling, the Curious Psychology of Writing, and What His Poet Friend Taught Him About the Nature of Creativity
“The act of writing is an integral part of my mental life; ideas emerge, are shaped, in the act of writing… a special, indispensable form of talking to myself.”
Virginia Woolf on Why the Best Mind Is the Nonbinary Mind
“In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female… The androgynous mind is resonant and porous… naturally creative, incandescent and undivided.”
John Steinbeck’s Pen: How the Joy of Handwriting Helps Us Draft the Meaning of Life
“The perfect pen and the perfect paper and me working on work that pleases me and has no note for the critics.”
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