Reads tagged with “Susan Orlean”

Susan Orlean on the Strange Serendipities That Shape Our Lives

How the roads taken and not taken both lead us to ourselves.

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Susan Orlean on Writing

“You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.”

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Timeless Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers

Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

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Reads tagged with “Susan Orlean”

How the roads taken and not taken both lead us to ourselves.

“You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.”

Hemingway, Didion, Baldwin, Fitzgerald, Sontag, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Morrison, Orwell, Le Guin, Woolf, and other titans of literature.

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