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Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, the Art of Revision, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers
“In any art you’re allowed to steal anything if you can make it better.”
Creative Magic and What Makes a Great Writer: Joseph Conrad’s Beautiful Tribute to Henry James
“All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind.”
The Genes of the Soul: Amin Maalouf on Belonging, Conflict, and How We Inhabit Our Identity
“A person’s identity… is like a pattern drawn on a tightly stretched parchment. Touch just one part of it, just one allegiance, and the whole person will react, the whole drum will sound.”
Thomas Mann’s Moving Tribute for His Dear Friend Hermann Hesse’s Sixtieth Birthday
“I… love the man, his serenely contemplative, kindly-mischievous air, the fine, deep glance of his poor weak eyes, which with their blueness light up the gaunt, sharply cut face…”
Adam Smith’s Underappreciated Wisdom on Benevolence, Happiness, and Kindness
“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.”
Marilynne Robinson on the Humanities, the Limits of Neuroscience, and the Usefulness of the Soul as a Sensemaking Mechanism for Reality
“A great deal depends, perhaps our humanity depends, on our sensing and acknowledging that quality in our kind we call the soul.”
Hannah Arendt on Being vs. Appearing and Our Impulse for Self-Display
“Nothing and nobody exists in this world whose very being does not presuppose a spectator.”
Bukowski on Writing, Art, and the Courage to Create Outside Society’s Forms of Approval
“Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.”
How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and Nuanced Storytelling
“The memoirist … must engage with the world, because engagement makes experience, experience makes wisdom, and finally it’s the wisdom — or rather the movement toward it — that counts.”
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