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Matt George has spent a lifetime as a surf writer. He talks about his surfing life and his views on modern surf media as well as his new book, 'In Deep.' ....
he too was standing, so i there s a picture of rita dove. yes. rita dove, unlike most of the writers in the book who prefer to write in the morning or in the afternoon, she prefers to write at dusk. and she begins by lighting those candles so that as the dusk turns into darkness, the candles are lit and she can keep going. that desk was built for her by her father. it s, as i said, in a cabin in the woods. silence is very important to her. she says she wants a silence that so palable that you can hear your heartbeating in your chest. a lot of the writers, other writers, my husband among them, isaac singer, they talk about the interruptions, that this is part of writing. i know that kurt actually likes to be in this room alone, but he likes all of us in other rooms, lily in the next room, me downstairs running around. in fact, very often over the years i know that if i m out, or before lily was born or if she s out, when i come home, when he s been alone all day, h ....
what he finds is that all these individuals had such mammoth curiosity it consumed their imagination and brigade abilities, and that is what the special gifts they had brought to the world, so here is walter isaacson to talk about his book. [applause] thank you. henry lewis, was said to indulge in personality journalism. he said time magazine did not invent personality journalism. the bible did. that s how we tell stories and convey the moral lesson of our times. so as bash a bra said, i have always tried to be interested in creative people. in this town you know a whole lot of smart people i m not sure this is working. it is. a whole lot of smart people, and you kind of realize after a while that smart people are a dime a dozen, and they don t often amount to much. what does matter is creative people, can think out of the box, come up with something new, and so in this book, i tried to look at very smart people and figure out how they had to have a moral cent ....