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“When you read your notebooks, you remeet ideas. You reintroduce them to who you are now.” —Max Porter (author, not my friend from college of the same name)
“My writing grew out of a discomfort I had between art and music and writing. When i made music, I felt I should be writing, and when I wrote, I felt I should be painting, feeling I wasn’t good enough at any of them.” —Max Porter
— Sep 03, 2025 10:43PM
“My writing grew out of a discomfort I had between art and music and writing. When i made music, I felt I should be writing, and when I wrote, I felt I should be painting, feeling I wasn’t good enough at any of them.” —Max Porter
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Susie
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“A tolerance for tedium has to be one of the least celebrated and most important traits of a successful artist.”
— Sep 01, 2025 09:45AM
Susie
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“You have to be rigorous, you have to be a solider, you have to fight. It’s only by making a volume of work that you’ll be forced to confront what it is that you don’t know how to do, and learn to do it. Oh, and the other thing is, you need to show your work to other people and have them tell you what they don’t like.” –Ira glass
— Sep 01, 2025 09:42AM
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“You just have to be ruthless with what you’ve already made in order to make something better.”
— Aug 29, 2025 11:35PM
