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David Lynch on Where Ideas Come From

May 9, 2014

We don’t do anything without an idea. So they’re beautiful gifts. And I always say, you desiring an idea is like a bait on a hook — you can pull them in. And if you catch an idea that you love, that’s a beautiful, beautiful day. And you write that idea down so you won’t forget it. And that idea that you caught might just be a fragment of the whole — whatever it is you’re working on — but now you have even more bait. Thinking about that small fragment — that little fish — will bring in more, and they’ll come in and they’ll hook on. And more and more come in, and pretty soon you might have a script — or a chair, or a painting, or an idea for a painting.

Via Brain Pickings

Filed Under: Creativity, Writing Tagged With: David Lynch, interviews, video

Updike on his early stories

March 31, 2014

Filed Under: Writers Tagged With: interviews, John Updike, video

How you comin’ on that novel?

March 17, 2014

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: comedy, Family Guy, video, writing life

Craft

March 5, 2014

Toshiaki Omori, master shoemaker. Compare.

Filed Under: Creativity Tagged With: shoemaking, video

Winter

March 4, 2014

Holdsworth-yosemite

“Yosemite, Plan View, 2012” by Dan Holdsworth. More of Holdsworth’s amazing photos here.

Filed Under: Art, Photography Tagged With: landscapes

“The extension of our sympathies”

February 28, 2014

The greatest benefit we owe the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies… Art is the nearest thing to life, it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

George Eliot

Filed Under: Art, Books Tagged With: George Eliot, quotes

Book lust (a continuing series)

February 16, 2014

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Concept design by Elizabeth Perez for Fahrenheit 451. “The book’s spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface, so the book itself can be burned.” Very cool.

Filed Under: Books, Design Tagged With: book covers, book lust, graphic design, Ray Bradbury

Angela Lee Duckworth on Grit

February 14, 2014

I suspect that grit, not talent, is the single best predictor of success for novelists, too.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: grit, video

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