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Quote wall: Raymond Carver
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > It is his world and no other. —Raymond Carver, in the New York Times [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.
A shed in which to write, and live
Late last year, my wife and I were talking about writers and their sheds. Writers have a long history of writing in sheds, or little gazebos or cabins—give them a small room and tuck it in the backyard, or in the woods, and they're usually pretty content.
Quote wall: Ben Gibbard
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > There’s that saying: You spend your 20s thinking everybody’s talking about you, you spend your 30s wondering why
Quote wall: Colum McCann
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > A first line should open up your rib cage. It should reach in and twist your heart backward. It should
Winter at Hill House
This week, as I enjoyed a little time off, it snowed for the first time this season. The hill we live atop is steep, generally too steep when icy for even a Jeep to navigate safely, so when it snows, we stay home. (Easier this year, since "stay home&
The glass station
I'm having a curious reading experience: This week I began Emily St. John Mandel's The Glass Hotel [https://amzn.to/3FIV5MD], which tells the story of a financial con artist and the people in orbit around him. At the same time, I began watching HBO'
Quote wall: M. Night Shyamalan
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > Failure is very cleansing, and success is very confusing. —M. Night Shyamalan, in Vulture [https://www.vulture.com/2019/01/
Favorite reads, 2021 edition
Since 2015, I've been tracking my reading habits [https://www.jasongurley.com/reading-list] on this web site. Each year about this time, I look over everything I've read and select five-ish standouts. It's not easy selecting just five books when you read, you know,
Quote wall: Kazuo Ishiguro
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > ...a feeling that someone or other disapproved of me, and was only just managing to conceal it. Curiously, these moments
Quote wall: Brian Eno
On the bulletin board above my desk, I keep a handful of quotes that have taught me something, or that I hope to learn from. Here's one: > ...I know that things come from nothing very much, start from unpromising beginnings, and I'm an unpromising beginning,