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 …
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and …
Quote for Today: Robert Francis
I follow Plato only with my mind Pure beauty strikes me as a little thin A little cold, however beautiful. I am in love with …
Quote for Today: Max Ehrmann
To be without desire is to be content. But contentment is not happiness. And in contentment there is no progress. Happiness is to desire something, to work for it, and …
Quote for Today: Nitya Prakash
Instant gratification is overrated. While it might seem exciting to be able to snap your fingers and have something you want materialize before your eyes, that won’t give you …
Quote for Today: Chuck Close
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us …