SALMAN RUSHDIE ON HIS WRITING SELF December 26, 2008
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In an article about Salman Rushdie in a New York Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section about the time his novel The Enchantress of Florence came out, he was quoted as saying, “There’s a writing self which is not quite your ordinary social self and which you don’t really have access to except at the moment when you’re writing, and certainly in my view, I think of that as my best self …. To be able to be that person feels good; it feels better than anything else.”
LOVE December 26, 2008
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Peter Jenkins, a home-schooled student I worked with when he was in high school, was quoted as saying the loveliest thing about a stream: “Getting to know Patten Stream is like a love that develops slowly. Each visit brings new surprises and enjoyment. Each stretch of brook. each day and hour brings a new mood …. I have been awed by the rushing water after a rainstorm and watching the mist settle over the beaver meadows at dusk.” I wish I could claim credit for having taught him to write like that, but these words and the thoughts and feelings they convey are all his.
HUMAN BODY December 10, 2008
Posted by thenaturalist in Age, Interesting.add a comment
In an interview on the subject of his 2008 book, The Way We Work, David Macaulay said, “A sense of your own mortality is a pretty strong motivator to find out what’s happening to this machine, and how it’s losing a little bit of its amazing ability to take care of itself.”
