It’s not so easy writing about nothing.
So begins Patti Smith’s “M Train.”
These days I find it hardest to write about nothing, nothing with its absence of boundaries, direction, nothing that is everything that is the case.
As Zadie Smith admits in the part of this book named That Crafty Feeling where she shares her writing experiences and advice, she was never a macro planner
“The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but not human” – Adolf Hitler If you thought comic books were for adolescents only and that serious people read prose which no pictures can seep into, try Maus. You are about to change your mind.
Don’t take the words for granted. It is a privilege superior to senses, for what is the worth of all the experiences in the world if you cannot share them?
How do you discover something you don’t know exists? – the question asked during Rebecca’s workshop sparked a book of 9 luminous essays in search of an answer.
According to Polina’s mom, there are three types of children you can get as a parent: the angels, the demons, and something in between she calls ‘donkeys’ for their stubbornness.
Vera Brittain was a woman born to fight for what she believed in, and no other time could have been more suitable for her to live on Earth than the first half of the 20th century.