The point isnβt to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
Kathryn SchulzRead
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Books greatly influence our thoughts and creativity, shaping how we express ourselves.
In this quote, Kathryn Schulz reflects on her childhood experience of immersing herself in books. She describes how this deep engagement with literature has cultivated a rich internal world that informs her writing style and choices, highlighting the transformative power of reading and the eclectic, sometimes chaotic, nature of inspiration drawn from various sources.
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BooksWritingImaginationReadingCreativity
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of literature in education, you could say, 'As Kathryn Schulz noted, books can shape our internal world and influence our writing.'
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To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.
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We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
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Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
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