February 2013
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“Writers are very often miserable people: some thrive on unhappiness, others...”
– Avi Steinberg, “Is Writing Torture?”
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Relax! You’ll Be More Productive →
Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity. Professor K. Anders Ericsson and his colleagues at Florida State University have studied elite performers, including musicians, athletes, actors and chess players. In each of these fields, Dr. Ericsson found that the best performers typically practice in uninterrupted sessions that last no more than 90...
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WatchGreat spot for the NBA on TNT. Background here.
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January 2013
6 posts
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“… in her new book, “Negotiating With the Dead: A Writer on...”
– Ian McEwan, 2002
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“In my study, I set the mug next to my writing chair, across the room from my...”
– Roxana Robinson describes how she prepares to write in the morning
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“I know I’m not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina...”
– Philip Roth
December 2012
15 posts
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“In his 1988 book of essays, “Prepared for the Worst,” Christopher...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (read the whole thing here)
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
– Winston Churchill
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“The desire to matter as much as we once did to our mother is at the broken heart...”
– Talitha Stevenson
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“It is now 16 years since my first book was published, & abt 21 years since I...”
– George Orwell, 1949 notebook entry (via)
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“One of the things that really hurt Apple was after I left, John Sculley got a...”
– Steve Jobs (via david)
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“Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.”
– Mike Tyson (via david)
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November 2012
10 posts
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“I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day — and...”
– Joseph Conrad, letter to Edward Garnett, Mar. 29, 1898 (via Terry Teachout)
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“Then Roth, who, the world would learn sixteen days later, was retiring from...”
– Julian Tepper, “In Which Philip Roth Gave Me Life Advice”
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“In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when...”
– Junot Diaz
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“I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.”
– Ian McEwan
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October 2012
11 posts
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WatchStrandbeest by Theo Jansen
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WatchGay Talese gives a tour of his office and his writing habits. (via Austin Kleon)
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“There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but...”
– William James, Habit
September 2012
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