“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
