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Arrows and targets
David Shrigley “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.” —Arthur Schopenhauer Nancy Loves Christmas “Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target,...
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On reading more than one book at a time
Books on my breakfast table There are many different ways to read, and many different ways of reading that generate new writing. (For example, reading with a pencil.) One of my favorite ways is to have...
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All good things must begin
Octavia Butler’s notebook “All good things must begin.” —Octavia Butler, journal entry Here is the inside cover of one of Octavia E. Butler’s commonplace books, from around 1988. She wrote herself many...
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You have to be obsessed
“Talent is cheap — you have to be obsessed, otherwise you are going to give up.” —John Baldessari This week I finished Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower, which is so prescient it feels like...
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