It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.
Some writers write to forget. Some forget to write.
In the midst of battle, you need something versatile to keep your focus
I am Not, but the Universe is my Self.
Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity.
Yet it is also a tonic and an antidote to dullness to be with the Serbs. They possess the irresponsible gaiety that we traditionally connect with the Irish, with whom they have often been compared. Ot...
Pain is there when you are born,Its the very first thing you feel when you come in to the world.Then why run? Face it head on, cry in it,laugh in it because in the end pain is what you will remember.
Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit,...
Our response to the factory farm is ultimately a test of how we respond to the powerless, to the most distant, to the voiceless - it is a test of how we act when no one is forcing us to act one way or...
....and on occasion I like to write in pencil, because I need to know that I can erase the words, even if I never do.
We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortur...
I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to...
You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.
Fiction is entertaining. Nonfiction is epic.
Some people look like they sound better than they actually sound, because they look confident and have good posture, once musician, a veteran of many auditions, says. Other people look awful when they...
Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
I just like to say I'm from London, I don't have any specific area I represent. I'm not representing for a small group of people. I'd like everybody to be able to relate to a nerd, because everybody's...
Writing fiction is fun. Writing non-fiction is life-changing.
The Annual Register for 1763 tabulated the casualty list for British sailors in the Seven Years' War with France. Out of 184,899 men raised or rounded up for the war, 133, 708 died from disease, prima...
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