Quote of the day: Stephen King”
When we're faced with a problem, either we solve it or it solves us." (Stephen King, from an interview with Wallace Stroby)
Deliberate Rest: A Manifesto
In my last book, The Distraction Addiction, I devoted two chapters to rest and restoration, and the Digital Sabbath movement. In a chapter on rest, I talk some about
A profession as bad off as academia: Protestant clergy
At least that’s the impression I get from this Atlantic piece by David Wheeler, which describes issues facing new clergy that would sound very familiar at the AHA:
“I won’t talk or deal with a young writer unless I sense he has utterly given his life over to it”
I just came across this 2006 Publishers Weekly piece about Jim Harrison. I confess I’ve never read any of his work (I’m dreadfully ignorant in the modern fiction
C. S. Lewis: “you can’t study men”
"I happen to believe that you can’t study men, you can only get to know them, which is quite a different thing.” (C. S. Lewis in That Hideous
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work” (Flaubert)
I hope Mason Currey’s book Daily Rituals, on the daily schedules of various creative people, is selling well, because it’s the volume that’s launched a thousand infographics. The most
“Being a writer can’t be treated like it’s a job”
I think it’s fair to say that unless you’re an academic*, everyone who writes a book hopes that it’ll do well enough for them to start writing full-time.
The Busyness of Modern Life project
Forgive me if I've referenced this before, but I find this new Wellcome Collection project too interesting: The urge to be busy defines modern life. Rest can seem
“I believe an interview needs to be prepared ahead of time to sound spontaneous”
From a Paris Review interview with Italo Calvino: I could try to improvise but I believe an interview needs to be prepared ahead of time to sound spontaneous.
“You know what really needs attention? What working like crazy and taking no time off really gets us”
Washington Post contributor Brigid Schulte has a brief piece explaining why overwork is bad for you. Forget Russian figure skater Julia Lipnitskaia spinning in a blur with her