"My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read."

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Source : "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.

Jordan Ellenberg

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“One of the most important disciplines in journalism is to challenge your working premises.”
“If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean.”
“We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.”
“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.227, Vintage Canada
“I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now,”
“That's why writers writeâ€”to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.”
“Proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.”

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