Hard Quotes by Adam Gopnik

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.

— Adam Gopnik

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

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

“...we see life as deeply in our pleasures as in our pains.”

— Adam Gopnik

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship

— Adam Gopnik

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

“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

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

— Adam Gopnik

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

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

“[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

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