February 2012
6 posts
Feb 9th
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Feb 9th
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“If I ruled the world, or at least a publishing company, all books would contain...”
– Victoria Johnson, “The Maps We Wandered Into As Kids” (cf. my post, “Maps of Fictional Worlds”)
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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“Even in our weird information-saturated world, there’s so much we don’t, and...”
– Robin Sloan, “The Limits of Knowledge,” Snarkmarket (via paragraphstolove)
Feb 4th
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January 2012
16 posts
“I have never written an advertisement in the office. Too many interruptions. I...”
– David Ogilvy (via austinkleon)
Jan 30th
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“We would never call inexplicable little insights “hunches,” for fear of drawing...”
– from The City & The City by China Miéville
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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playing with blocks (or how to teach the writing...
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Jan 29th
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“Very often people don’t listen to you when you speak to them. It’s only when you...”
– John Ashberry (via thrumminginthemixture)
Jan 28th
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“Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid...”
– Sydney Smith, Lecture IX : On the Conduct of the Understanding (via triadic)
Jan 25th
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“The fun part of research is finding what you arent looking for.”
– Erik Spiekermann (via robertogreco)
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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“[W]ork to create small-is-beautiful alternatives.”
– Alan Jacobs (via robertogreco)
Jan 20th
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“There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but...”
– Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain  (via meganannaneff)
Jan 17th
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“Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy...”
– from The Rise of the New Groupthink by Susan Cain, via Rob
Jan 16th
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“Our world is ideologically fragmented, and the range of positions, multiplied by...”
– Charles Taylor
Jan 14th
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“We are, after all, only very clever tailless primates, doing the best we can,...”
– from Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow
Jan 14th
Jan 2nd
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“The great modern enemy of friendship has turned out to be love. By love, I don’t...”
– from the best thing Andrew Sullivan has written (via wesleyhill)
Jan 2nd
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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– From Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. May we fight the things that reduce us for the company and truth that make life big. Happy new year, everyone. Here’s to 2012. (via viafrank)
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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“In the current view of how associative memory works, a great deal happens at...”
– Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (via thinkyouunderthetable)
Jan 1st
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December 2011
4 posts
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil for every one striking at...”
– Henry David Thoreau in Walden, quoted by Lawrence Lessig
Dec 28th
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Dec 23rd
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November 2011
5 posts
“… he lived in an age in which an almost infinite number of parallel...”
– from Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie, about all the devices for games and stories that we carry around
Nov 25th
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“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.”
– David McCullough (He continues: “We all know the old expression, “I’ll work my thoughts out on paper.” There’s something about the pen that focuses the brain in a way that nothing else does.”)
Nov 8th
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Nov 7th
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“Ten hours I spent there, and the only act of creation I accomplished was to...”
– from The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. (This is about how I feel after a day of scoring writing assessments at a coffee shop.)
Nov 2nd
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“It’s like I had these great traveling companions on a long journey across...”
– Robin Sloan about the loss of Google Reader sharing
Nov 1st
October 2011
16 posts
“The newspaper articles … about the upcoming Senate investigation into...”
– from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon
Oct 30th
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“The Russian polymath Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the titanic minds of the twentieth...”
– The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs (via viafrank)
Oct 30th
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“If only human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this...”
– from David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (via alaina)
Oct 30th
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“There is no better strategy than to trust in the fundamental interconnectedness...”
– Matt Webb (via robertogreco)
Oct 30th
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“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
– Annie Proulx (via theparisreview)
Oct 28th
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of...”
– John Milton, English poet, polemicist, and civil servant (via kelseypmft)
Oct 26th
Oct 23rd
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Ten Things to Know About Alabama’s New Immigration... →
Oct 21st
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Oct 19th
235 notes
“Make me see!”
– Charles Dickens’ advice to writers (via austinkleon)
Oct 15th
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“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But...”
– Steve Jobs (via Bobulate)
Oct 15th
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“The problem is always that, at the end of the day, I can sit on my butt and make...”
– Neal Stephenson. My hero.
Oct 15th
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“EVERYTHING IS DEEPLY INTERTWINGLED.”
– Ted Nelson, via, via
Oct 12th
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“I knew the poem by heart by Wallace’s memorial service that October, when I read...”
– Adam Plunkett
Oct 8th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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September 2011
3 posts
“It’s like morphine, language is. A fearful habit to form: you become a bore to...”
– —William Faulkner, Mosquitoes [via Luke] (via portraitoftheartistasayoungman)
Sep 28th
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an excerpt from Neil Conan's interview with Tom...
ROSENSTIEL: … One of the things that we talk about in the book that I think people know in their lives is the idea of the null hypothesis. OK. People are arguing that this is caused or that this evidence proves the following. What if it doesn’t? What if the opposite is true? What if there’s a different hypothesis? Has that been tested? Or has the journalist simply taken what...
Sep 2nd
“Momma, you know those people called Everyone that you were talking about? I...”
– Harper
Sep 2nd