Posts Tagged ‘writer’s notebook’
Documenting Discovery: Lisa Olstein on the Art of Observation
“We all love to receive something either really beautiful or really intelligent, but what’s most exciting or engaging is when a work of art stimulates in you a new kind of thinking, or a new set of questions, or a new set of ideas that are happening in your own brain but that were instigated by the art.”
Loving the Questions
Posted: January 11, 2010
Tags: writer's notebook, technology, reflections, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gene Fowler
As 2010 begins and a new decade stretches before us many of us will articulate goals for the new year — exercise thirty minutes a day, eat more vegetables, meet our best friends for drinks every other week. And for many of us, nestled between these goals will be a quiet, albeit fierce resolution to deepen our commitment to our craft. We’ve read Gene Fowler’s remark: “Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” We know that the act of creation takes time and attention. …
