Listen to your story
The story gets to be what the story wants to be–meaning, if I’m struggling with a story, it quite likely could be that I’m trying […]
Quotes
Outdo your heroes 9 comments
Who are your heroes in your field? What would outdoing them look like? Are you aiming that high? How could you get there? Think of […]
James Baldwin: Artists are here to disturb the peace 6 comments
Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true […]
Art of Resistance 4 comments
…art of resistance (…): that is, art that works to resist erasure and oppression, art that revisits and revises history, art that that tells new […]
Louise Brooks on truth in writing 4 comments
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it — learning to write — but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first […]
Anthony Minghella: Waiting is part of writing 5 comments
I’ve stopped unravelling everytime I’m unable to write. I wait. The drawer opens. Waiting is part of writing. — Anthony Minghella, in an interview by […]