Salman Rushdie, Bruce Wagner, George Eliot.
Vanity Fair, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2001 source ↗
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What inspires you to learn?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
This exact prompt is one of Vox's nine recurring questions about intellectual habits.
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Jia Tolentino
Writer
I love being bad at something and getting better at it.
Hiroshi Mikitani
Founder, chairman and chief executive of Rakuten
My answer may have surprised some in attendance at the meeting: I don’t have a role model or sensei. Or to be more precise, I don’t have a single teacher. Instead, I take it upon myself to learn from everyone around me. If we open our eyes, we may find that everyone can be our teacher.
J.K. Rowling
Novelist and screenwriter
Even though I have a highly visual imagination, I’ve had to learn just how much can be said onscreen without a word, and David and Steve have taught me that.
Adam Zagajewski
Poet and essayist
The good part of aging is that you read more and more. You discover poets you never heard of when you were younger.
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My mother.
My driving skills.
David Spade’s assistant.
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
My inability to have romantic relationships.
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