Reads tagged with “writing”
Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last
“Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.”
Saul Bellow’s Spectacular Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech on How Art and Literature Ennoble the Human Spirit
“Only art penetrates … the seeming realities of this world. There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive.”
The Midwifery of Creativity: Beloved Poet Denise Levertov on How a Great Work of Art Is Born
On giving shape to the stimulus “selected by some interior mysterious process out of all the other minutes and hours.”
The Art of Science Communication: William Zinsser on How to Write Well About Science
How to master the inverse pyramid of transmuting information into wisdom.
Arts of the Possible: Adrienne Rich on Writing, Capitalism, Freedom, and How Silence Fertilizes the Human Imagination
“The impulse to create begins — often terribly and fearfully — in a tunnel of silence. Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence.”
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.”
Teenage Sylvia Plath’s Letters to Her Mother on the Joy of Living and Writing as Salvation and Sustenance for the Spirit
“I want to be affected by life deeply, but never so blinded that I cannot see my share of existence in a wry, humorous light…”
An Animating Presence: Dani Shapiro on the Quest for a Connected Consciousness
The art of holding up one’s own end of the dialogue.
The Power of Unconditional Love: How Oliver Sacks’s Beloved Aunt Shaped His Life and Inspired His Courageous Dance with Death
“I shall hope against hope that you may weather this misery, and be restored again to the joy of full living.”
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