Most intellectuals and most artists belong to the same type. Only the strongest of them force their way through the atmosphere of the bourgeois earth and attain to the cosmic. The others all resigned themselves or make compromises.
— Hermann HesseHow One Author Deals With The Terrors Of Writing A Book
R.O. Kwon (The Incendiaries, Exhibit) says that the best way to write is to imagine no one will ever read it. - The New York Times
A So-Called One Hundred Percent Accurate Tonys Prediction List
Well, if we don’t all know Merrily We Roll Along is going to sweep its categories, this Vulture article will tell us - and everything else too, about who’s campaigning, who’s a sentimental favorite, and oh, so much more. - Vulture (MSN)
The Joys Of Reading Books That You Don’t Fully Understand
Molly Templeton’s desire is “for us to have the time, the space, the mental bandwidth to welcome uncertainty, to crank up our curiosity and give the weird or confusing or just slightly unexpected books a chance. And I want it to be totally okay and acceptable and normal.” - Reactor
Painting Used For Cover Of The First Harry Potter Book Sells For $1.9 Million
The painting surpassed its $400,000–$600,000 pre-auction estimate, and has now increased in value by more than 1,650 percent since it was first auctioned in 2001. - ARTnews
Oooh. Now We Have “Malevolent” Creativity
When you think of creativity, you probably imagine a genius behind an easel or at the heart of a brilliantly directed movie. However, people can also tap into their creative juices if they want to rise to power, enact revenge, or just create trouble. - Psychology Today
