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““There is a disconnect between the wealth of stories available here and the rarity of creative refuge.””

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One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.

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Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than…

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It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new…

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Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're…

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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with…

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“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how…

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“I look at his hands. In those hands is new knowledge.”

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“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house…

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“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is…

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Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.

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“The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten...Generations rushed through the eye of the needle, and I, one of…

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“As I contemplated the silent world before me, I thought of the many romantic ideas attached to blindness. Ideas of unusual sensitivity and genius…

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

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By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological…

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“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.”

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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

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If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

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“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

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Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

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