Reads tagged with “writing”
How to Pitch Yourself: Young Eudora Welty’s Impossibly Charming Job Application to The New Yorker
An exquisite yin-yang balance of erudition and irreverence, dignity and self-deprecation.
Anthony Trollope’s Witty and Wise Advice on How to Be a Successful Writer
“My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who… will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.”
Mary Oliver on the Mystery of the Human Psyche, the Secret of Great Poetry, and How Rhythm Makes Us Come Alive
“Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.”
Tom Gauld’s Brilliant Literary Cartoons Blur the Artificial Line Between “High” and “Pop” Culture
From Hemingway’s hangovers to the messiness of creative collaborations, wryly witty visual satire of intellectualism.
Annie Dillard on the Art of the Essay and the Different Responsibilities of Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Short Stories
“Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.”
Lynne Tillman on What to Say When People Ask You Why You’re an Artist or Writer
“Writers and artists may ask themselves why they make art or write… but all rebuttals and answers to their existential questions rest on faith in Art or Literature.”
Dare to Disturb the Universe: Madeleine L’Engle on Creativity, Censorship, Writing, and the Duty of Children’s Books
“We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we’ll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.”
Isaac Asimov on the Thrill of Lifelong Learning, Science vs. Religion, and the Role of Science Fiction in Advancing Society
“It’s insulting to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments can keep you a decent human being.”
Donald Barthelme on the Art of Not-Knowing and the Essential Not-Knowing of Art
“Our devouring commercial culture… results in a double impoverishment: theft of complexity from the reader, theft of the reader from the writer.”
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