Quotes by Jesse Ball

Jesse Ball

…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. ” “What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?

Cost

Decision

Personality

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

Book

Boys

Ideas

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

Book

Sticks

Would Be

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

Chance

Persons

Protest

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

Intellectual

Pleasure

Pleasure Seeking

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

Book

Ideas

Jobs

Clarity is the most important thing to me – in thinking – and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

Book

Important

Thinking

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

Different

Points In Life

Structure

First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one’s door. No, that is simply going out. That’s what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

Moving

Simple

Wine

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

Confused

Mind

Used To Be

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Believe

Book

Boys

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Chance

Concepts

Confused

Cost

Decision

Desperation

Different

Difficult

Doe

Done

Easier

Elephants

Enterprise

Events

False Hope

Firsts

Flesh

Heart

Helping

Humans

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Intellectual

Jobs

Knows

Long

Luck

Men

Might

Mind

Moving

Needs

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Pairs

Past

Personality

Persons

Pleasure

Pleasure Seeking

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Quotes by Jesse Ball

Jesse Ball

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

Clarity is the most important thing to me – in thinking – and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

I am clearer in my mind and a bit less confused than I used to be.

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