trust your untrammeled instincts

Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

This relates to something Elif said at the beginning, about how as an aspiring writer she believed she should not read novels in order to be a real, creative genius. I love my influences, but I would advise people to be more like young Elif! Protect and cultivate and trust your untrammeled instincts a little bit, just for fun.

—p.107 Group Three (71) by Astra Taylor 7 years, 7 months ago

No Regrets: Three Discussions
by Amanda Katz, Astra Taylor, Carla Blumenkranz, Dawn Lundy Martin, Dayna Tortorici, Elif Batuman, Elizabeth Gumport, Emily Gould, Emily Witt, Kristin Dombek, Namara Smith, Sara Marcus, Sarah Resnick, n+1 (editors)

No Regrets: Three Discussions
by Amanda Katz, Astra Taylor, Carla Blumenkranz, Dawn Lundy Martin, Dayna Tortorici, Elif Batuman, Elizabeth Gumport, Emily Gould, Emily Witt, Kristin Dombek, Namara Smith, Sara Marcus, Sarah Resnick, n+1 (editors)

No Regrets: Three Discussions
by Amanda Katz, Astra Taylor, Carla Blumenkranz, Dawn Lundy Martin, Dayna Tortorici, Elif Batuman, Elizabeth Gumport, Emily Gould, Emily Witt, Kristin Dombek, Namara Smith, Sara Marcus, Sarah Resnick, n+1 (editors)