Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent
Interpretation
Challenging projects help writers to grow and improve their skills.
This quote by Donna Tartt emphasizes the importance of tackling difficult tasks in order to develop one's abilities as a writer. Engaging in challenging projects not only enhances a writer's technical skills but also broadens their creative horizons, making the investment of time and effort worthwhile for personal and professional growth.
In practice
This quote can be used as a motivational speech topic for aspiring writers.
Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus, melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.
Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
Everything we know, we learned from someone else!
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.
I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach.
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