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On having more interesting ideas
“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk to people who have worked with their ideas seriously for 10+ years, it feels like I can throw any topic on them and they’ll have an interesting idea, or if not an idea so at least an unexpected way of approaching it.
When I am with others, when I read books, when I look at Twitter—I feel like a dam filling with water, with potential energy. My best writing happened after I, at the end of 2021, got so sick that I couldn’t move or talk or read for three weeks. It was like I melted away, all my thoughts sunk, I forgot who I was, and when I could get out of bed I wrote “ Looking for Alice.” The best ideas tend to be fragile and can’t stand the scrutiny of others until they’ve learned to walk.
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