Adam Gopnik Quotes

Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all.

Adam Gopnik

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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.

M. J. Rose
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

Basil Bunting
- Music
- Picture
- Look
I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.

Flea Jane's Addiction
- Music
- Kid
- Los Angeles
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

Veronica Roth
- Up
- True
- Age
Society becomes how we behave.

Gavin Newsom
- Society
- How
- Behave
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

Sally Mann
- Done
- Mother
- Pretty