Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Howard Rheingold

Quote by Howard Rheingold

Work

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

This book delves into the transformative effects of mobile technology on society, examining how it facilitates collective action and social change. more

Author

Howard Rheingold
Howard Rheingold

Howard Rheingold is a writer, scholar, and digital media thinker. Born on July 7, 1947, he is renowned for his profound insights into network culture, collaboration, and the digital age. Rheingold's writings cover a range of topics from cyberliteracy to virtual reality, and his works have had a significant impact on understanding social and technological changes in the digital era. more

You May Also Like

“So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”

“This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.”

“'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.”