What did Adam Gopnik mean by: Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense. - Adam Gopnik Writer Copy
+ I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Speak, Writing, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Flavor, Human, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second. Feraz Zeid, August 27, 2023December 24, 2023, Adam Gopnik, First, Swim, Travel, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Mind, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Big writers become a kind of shared climate. Feraz Zeid, July 1, 2023December 12, 2023, Adam Gopnik, Climate, Writing, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Good Times, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Brutal, Moral, Scandal, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
+ After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Adam Gopnik, Rewards, Spinning, 0 - Adam Gopnik Writer
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art. - William Ralph Inge Theologian and Anglican priest · England
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified. - Maxwell Perkins Editor · USA