Jack El-Hai: writing wisdom and tips

#Writing: "In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love." - Frank O'Hara, born 100 years ago on today's date

#Writing: "The want of a biscuit, a beefsteak and a job has caused more revolutions than all the flags that ever waved." – Kate Richards O'Hare, born 150 years ago on today's date

#Writing: "The world desperately needs powerful storytellers to help us make sense of the unfathomable events taking place." – Alexis Wright

#Writing: "I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are." – Dario Fo, born 100 years ago on today's date

#Writing ideas: "You have to take the worst possible outcome in your profession and imagine it as inevitable." – Ronald W. Dworkin

"I discovered how to become and be a writer by reading biographies of writers, and then reading their work through the lens of their lives. Biographical reading and #writing is one of the deepest acts of empathy and understanding." — Kristen Iversen

#Writing and #procrastination: “It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book.” — Douglas Adams

#Writing: “Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.” ― Anne Fadiman

#Writing: "Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once l am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my thoughts, I start to look for characters capable of representing it". – Siegfried Lenz, born 100 years ago on today's date

#Writing: "A novel is a mirror carried along a main road." – Stendahl

#Writing: "Simply telling the truth wasn't half enough. It still has to be brought to fictional life." – John Clellon Holmes, born 100 years ago on today's date

#Writing: “Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.” ― Elizabeth Gaskell

#Writing: "Immersion into an order and a discipline is the only thing that can soothe me." – Susan Sontag

Netflix is now streaming Nuremberg, the movie recently adapted from my book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. If you haven't yet seen it, now's the time. movieweb.com/nuremberg-2025…

#Writing: "Always work (note, write) from your own interest, not from what you think you should be noting or writing. Trust your own interest." – Lydia Davis

#Writing: "Eating an oyster is like kissing the sea on the lips." – Léon Paul Fargue

Honoured to have had journalist and author Jack El-Hai on to discuss his work and how his book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist, led to the @jamesthevan Film Nuremburg starring Rami Malek and @russellcrowe Links down below: #Nurembergtrials #psychiatry #podcast

#Writing: "Six inches of snow on twenty feet of lava has been said of me, and not without reason." – Marie d'Agoult, who died 150 years ago on today's date

#Writing: "Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself." – James Merrill, born 100 years ago on today's date

#Writing biographies: "Never give up, never assume dead people tell no tales, and record your interviews." – Peter Benjaminson