Kathryn Schulz — American Journalist

Kathryn Schulz is an American journalist and author, and the former book critic for New York magazine. She joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2015... (wikipedia)

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.