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“Trying to work too quickly, trying to work in too polished a way too quickly, expecting clarity too soon, can set us up for failure.”
― Louise DeSalvo, The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity

“As we begin a work, remembering we needn’t know how it’ll turn out or whether it’ll be successful might be comforting. And we can cultivate our ability to work despite confusion”
― Louise DeSalvo, The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity

“The most productive writers and creative people I know realize that dreaming and daydreaming are important parts of how writers work. We might not know, now, what to do with the images our dreams or daydreams provide, but one day, if we continue to try to unravel their meaning, as Naylor’s process illustrates, we will.”
― Louise DeSalvo, The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity

“Here, in the vanguard, beyond the borders of knowledge, science becomes even more beautiful—incandescent in the forge of nascent ideas, of intuitions, of attempts. Of roads taken and then abandoned, of enthusiasms. In the effort to imagine what has not yet been imagined. Twenty”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics