Entries from August 2010
Aug. 6, 2010
Young Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, American Red Cross volunteer, 18 or 19 years old, in Milan, 1918. Photo credit: Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Portrait by Ermeni Studios, Milan, Italy. (Via.) Image above is a little Photoshopped from the original. View full size here.
Tags: Ernest Hemingway · Portraits of Writers
Aug. 6, 2010
Innovation and Risk
“The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” — Randy Nelson of Pixar Studios
Tags: quotes · Randy Nelson
Aug. 4, 2010
DeLillo: “The writer leads”
Don DeLillo’s 1997 letter to Jonathan Franzen: *The writer leads.*
Tags: Don DeLillo · quotes for writers
Aug. 2, 2010
The Sawyer Effect
Tom Sawyer and the power of intrinsic motivation.
Tags: Daniel Pink · Jonah Lehrer · motivation · procrastination · writing life
