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Nietzsche on Walking and Creativity
“Our first questions about the value of a book, of a human being, or a musical composition are: Can they walk? Even more, can they dance?”
Problems vs. Questions: Chekhov on How (Not) to Be a Writer and the Essence of Creative Work
“Anyone who says that the artist’s sphere leaves no room for questions, but deals exclusively with answers, has never done any writing or done anything with imagery.”
Octavia Butler on Creativity, the Generative Power of Our Obsessions, and How We Become Who We Are
“Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in the greatest, the most intense of our chosen struggles.”
Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
“Words have more power than any one can guess; it is by words that the world’s great fight, now in these civilized times, is carried on.”
Beyond the Blues: Poet Mary Ruefle’s Stunning Color Spectrum of Sadnesses
“Pink sadness… is the sadness of shame when you have done nothing wrong, pink sadness is not your fault, and though even the littlest twinge may cause it, it is the vast bushy top on the family tree of sadness, whose faraway roots resemble a colossal squid with eyes the size of soccer balls.”
A Process for the Transfer of Energy and Feeling: George Saunders on the Key to Great Storytelling
“What a story is ‘about’ is to be found in the curiosity it creates in us, which is a form of caring.”
Mass, Energy, and How Literature Transforms the Dead Weight of Being: Jeanette Winterson on Why We Read
“Books read us back to ourselves… The escape into another story reminds us that we too are another story. Not caught, not confined, not predestined.”
John McPhee on Writing and the Relationship Between Artistic Originality and Self-Doubt
“Never stop battling for the survival of your own unique stamp.”
Nothing Is Fixed: James Baldwin on Keeping the Light Alive Amid the Entropic Darkness of Being, Set to Music
“The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
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