The best writing makes your heart skip a beat. It projects a movie in front of your eyes filled with images that compels your brain to consider them undeniably real.
The best writing comes from a place where otherworldly feelings live comfortably. Where once in a while, you have to close your eyes in the middle of a sentence to be able to fully digest and appreciate it. The best writing can make you cry from joy. And from sadness.
Ultimately the best writing comes from deep within the heart, where experience has been synthesized into love. And that’s certainly true of Mona Simpson’s eulogy for her brother Steve Jobs.
If someone were ever to send me something and say “Read it and weep,” this would be it.
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