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Virginia Woolf on Writing and Self-Doubt
Consolation for those moments when you can’t tell whether you’re “the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.”
How We Become Who We Are: Meghan Daum on Nostalgia, Aging, and Why We Romanticize Our Imperfect Younger Selves
“Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who we are.”
Kierkegaard on Nonconformity, the Individual vs. the Crowd, and the Power of the Minority
“Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.”
John Dewey on War and Our Individual Role in Peace
“The present task of the constructive pacifist is to call attention away from the catchwords which so easily in wartime become the substitute for both facts and ideas back to realities.”
The Sense of Style: Psycholinguist Steven Pinker on the Art and Science of Beautiful Writing
“Every generation believes that the kids today are degrading the language and taking civilization down with it.”
The Best Biographies, Memoirs, and History Books of 2014
Nabokov’s love letters, Shackleton’s courageous journey, the unsung heroes behind creative icons, Joni Mitchell unbound, and more.
The Psychology of Flow: What Game Design Reveals about the Deliberate Tensions of Great Writing
“The books that give us the most pleasure, the deepest pleasure, combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on Where Ideas Come From, the “Secret” of Great Writing, and the Trap of Marketing Your Work
“All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.”
A Book Is a Heart That Only Beats in the Chest of Another: Rebecca Solnit on the Solitary Intimacy of Reading and Writing
“The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed.”
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