Quote for Today: Wim Wenders
That’s how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something. You have a wish. You wish that something might exist, and …
Quote for Today: Eric Fehrenbacher
Ritual makes me think of being in the flow of the creative process—when I’m fully focused on the creative, often listening to music, making the work, making intuitive creative decisions …
Quote for Today: Ariel Gore
When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get …
Quote for Today: Pyotr Kropotkin
Having been brought up in a serf-owner’s family, I entered active life, like all young men of my time, with a great deal of confidence in the necessity of commanding, …
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Gilbert
Most of my writing life, to be perfectly honest, is not freaky, old-timey, voodoo-style Big Magic. Most of my writing life consists of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I …
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
I mean, all I do here is do the work that my bosses tell me to do the way they tell me to do it. I don’t have to …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years,” she read, “and on Gethen there has never been a war.” She stopped reading, to …
Cover Art Contest Winner: Catherine Heller’s Flying Pigs
Synkroniciti is delighted to reveal the lovely new cover for our 8th issue, excerpted from Catherine Heller’s stylish and sensitive graphic comic Flying Pigs, which will be featured inside the …
Quote for Today: Martin Luther King Jr.
Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than …