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Categories: Art · Movies
Tags: John le Carre · video
This video runs about 32 minutes, so save it for when you have a moment. A half hour with one of the world’s great talkers. (Copped from Frank Chimero.)
Categories: Creative Process
Tags: Stephen Fry · video
Ian Fleming explains.
Categories: Books · Writers · Writing
Tags: Ian Fleming · James Bond · video
Seth Godin advises writers and other artists (at around 7:45 of this video), “What you do for a living is not be creative. Everyone is creative. What you do for a living is ship. … That is the discipline of what a creative artist does.” Even allowing for a little hyperbole (obviously artists have to be [...]
Categories: Creative Process · Productivity · Writing
Tags: bookthree · Seth Godin · video · writing life · writing tips
Michael Tamblyn’s presentation at the O’Reilly TOC conference in Frankfurt, October 13, 2009. (Actually this is Tamblyn’s recreation of the talk, which was apparently not recorded.) Tamblyn, of Softcovers, discusses what is missing from the current ebook experience.
Categories: Publishing
Tags: ebooks · Michael Tamblyn · video
“I recognized at a pretty early age — certainly I was pre-teens — I noticed that the school day was enough of the day to spend with my friends. I seemed to have a need to … be alone.” I am sure this is a common characteristic of writers, even gregarious ones. Certainly I needed to [...]
Categories: Writers
Tags: creativity · interviews · John Irving · video
“I have great suspicion of posterity. I’m quite prepared to be entirely forgotten five years after my death.” Somerset Maugham in a 1958 interview with the CBC. (via) More about Maugham here.
Categories: Writers
Tags: interviews · Somerset Maugham · video
More clips from this interview here.
Categories: Books · Internet · Publishing · Writers
Tags: ebooks · interviews · Philip Roth · video
“There’s certainly a brain basis to crime … the brains of violent criminals are physically and functionally different from the rest of us.” — Adrian Raine A burgeoning science suggests that crime is caused in part by biological factors, that is, by traits inherited through DNA or by the brain malfunctioning in very specific ways. [...]
Categories: Crime · My Books
Tags: behavioral genetics · bookthree · law · neurology · science · video
Will Google Books, the audacious attempt to digitize every book ever written, have the perverse effect of making books — and ideas — less available, less ubiquitous, less free? Will copyright laws require that most of the books written in the last century be excluded from the new digital online library? Is this progress? This [...]
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Tags: copyright · Google · Lawrence Lessig · video
