The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.
Jesse BallI don't start with an idea or concept in the sense that I flesh out an idea or concept and set it at the center of something.
Jesse BallAs far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.
Jesse BallโฆThere are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?
Jesse Ball