I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them. I think if journalists start doing that… — 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
