[오늘의 한문장] Small Things Like These

The times were raw but Furlong felt all the more determined to carry on, to keep his head down and stay on the right side of people, and to keep providing for his girls and see them getting on and completing their education at St Margaret’s, the only good school for girls in the town. - P14

[오늘의 한문장] 마음의 힘이 필요할 때 나는 달린다

달리기를 하면서 마음에 일어나는 생각과 느낌을 주시한다. ‘힘들다’가 아니라 힘들다고 하는 ‘마음’을 주시하고 있으면 힘은 들지만 그만두거나 멈추지 않고 그 상태 그대로 달리기를 계속할 수 있다. 그것을 인내심이라고도 할 수 있다. - <마음의 힘이 필요할 때 나는 달린다>, 김세희 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/2c3ff7e9ae1b473e - P12

진료실 한쪽에 있는 의료진 소개란에 진료 경력과 마라...

진료실 한쪽에 있는 의료진 소개란에 진료 경력과 마라톤 대회 완주 이력을 함께 소개하고 있다. 자신의 정신 건강에 관해 상담하고자 찾아온 이들이 의사를 신뢰하는 데 도움이 될 것이라 생각했다. 마라톤은 인내심과 정신력이 필요한 운동이기에 환자들이 ‘내 마음속 이야기를 선생님에게는 털어놓아도 되지 않을까’ 하길 바랐다. 마라톤을 완주하는 것도 힘들지만 대회에 참가하려고 준비하는 과정 또한 무척 고되다. 보통 한 달에 300km 이상의 연습량이 필요하다. 마라톤은 기록경기이다 보니 시간을 단축하려면 늘 자신의 한계를 마주하는 훈련을 하게 된다. 대회를 하나 마치고 나면 다시 그 다음 한계를 극복하는 과정을 이어간다. - <마음의 힘이 필요할 때 나는 달린다>, 김세희 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/2c3ff7e9ae1b473e - P6

마라톤을 하면서 고도로 절제된 생활을 하게 되었다. 일찍 자고 일찍 일어나는 건 기본이 되었고, 음식 섭취를 절제하고 사람들과의 만남도 정제된 경건한 수도승 같은 삶이다. - <마음의 힘이 필요할 때 나는 달린다>, 김세희 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/2c3ff7e9ae1b473e - P7

달리면서 겪는 심리적 갈등은 일상에서의 것과 환경만 다를 뿐 본질은 같다. 내면의 스트레스를 극복하는 과정 또한 마라톤에서나 삶에서나 크게 다르지 않다. - <마음의 힘이 필요할 때 나는 달린다>, 김세희 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/2c3ff7e9ae1b473e - P8

Unlike medicine or the other ...

Unlike medicine or the other sciences, writing has no new discoveries to spring on us. - P297

If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you’ve written against the various middlemen—editors, agents and publishers—whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not as high. Too many writers are browbeaten into settling for less than their best. - P298

Ideally the relationship between a writer and an editor should be one of negotiation and trust. - P300

But finally the purposes that writers serve must be their own. What you write is yours and nobody else’s. Take your talent as far as you can and guard it with your life. - P302

My favorite definition of a careful writer comes from Joe DiMaggio, though he didn’t know that’s what he was defining. - P302

A reporter once asked him how he managed to play so well so consistently, and he said: "I always thought that there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn’t want to let him down." - P302

You learn to write by writing. It’s a truism, but what makes it a truism is that it’s true. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis. - P49

Here’s how a typical piece by E. B. White begins: I spent several days and nights in mid-September with an ailing pig and I feel driven to account for this stretch of time, more particularly since the pig died at last, and I lived, and things might easily have gone the other way round and none left to do the accounting. - P231

Probably the biggest fear for nonfiction writers is the fear of not being able to bring off their assignment. With fiction it’s a different situation. - P244

Besides wanting to write as well as possible, I wanted to write as entertainingly as possible. - P296

Yet to defend what you’ve written is a sign that you are alive. I’m a known crank on this issue—I fight over every semicolon. - P291

So much for early warnings ab...

So much for early warnings about the bloated monsters that lie in ambush for the writer trying to put together a clean English sentence. - P17

Besides wanting to write as well as possible, I wanted to write as entertainingly as possible. - P296