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The Value of Not Understanding Everything: Grace Paley’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
“Luckily for art, life is difficult, hard to understand, useless, and mysterious.”
The Workhorse and the Butterfly: Ann Patchett on Writing and Why Self-Forgiveness Is the Most Important Ingredient of Great Art
“The ability to forgive oneself … is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life.”
Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
“Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
How to Read Intelligently and Write a Great Essay: Robert Frost’s Letter of Advice to His Young Daughter
“The sidelong glance is what you depend on.”
Pearl S. Buck, the Youngest Woman to Receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, on Art, Writing, and the Nature of Creativity
“The creative instinct is … an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual… — an energy which no single life can consume.”
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.”
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.”
The Principle of Infinite Pains: Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers
“The love of life itself… seems to me larger than the loving attention to a life. But, of course, each contains the other…”
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