Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
Writing well isn't just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
“There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things into feelings or doesn't. Sometimes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think -… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
“[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
I don't think there's any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that - that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
“This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy… his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and "The Wind… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share
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