Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
Hannah Arendt
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books. -
For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane. -
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More quotes by Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
- Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.