If you want to be a writer, marry someone who is rich.

BarcelonaThey say it's one of the most beautiful museums in the world, yet it's still relatively unknown. It's called Louisiana, but don't let the name send you to the United States: it's much closer, about 40 kilometers north of Copenhagen. Its origins are a stately private home belonging to a man who named it that because his three wives were named Louise. After it passed into the hands of a private art collector, he wanted to turn it into a museum, and in 1958, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opened.

It's truly beautiful. Simple, horizontal buildings were built that blend in beautifully with the generous nature in which it's located. You can lie in the garden and contemplate the views of the Baltic Sea, vast in front of you, or stroll through it to discover the sculptures that inhabit it. Inside, there's a permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, and a museum shop, the kind you could spend your money on. If you don't have any vacation plans yet, it's a good visit, but even if you don't go, it can be very satisfying. It turns out that, since 2010, they've organized a four-day literary festival in August. The best writers in the world have been there, and, to avoid an endless list, I'll tell you that this year Maggie Nelson, the Sally Rooney, he Richard Flanagan, the Édouard Louis, the Neige Sinno and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Someday I'd like to go, but for now I'm content with their online channel, where they post free content related to art, literature, music, design, and architecture. The main source of the videos is the views they've had: Bacon.

I always end up in the literature section, where there are recurring topics that they pose to the different authors who pass by, such as how to face the blank page or, my favorite, advice for writers who are starting to find it very difficult. "If your partner has money." He says it very seriously, and although he finally laughs and recommends reading above all, in the end he insists: "Marry someone rich." The grandfather of the Samanta SchweblinA visual artist, he must have been well aware of the difficulties of the trade, because the training he gave his granddaughter from a young age included petty theft at craft fairs and traveling on public transport without paying a fare. Argentina remembers this with amusement: "He told me that, to be an artist, I had to learn to live without money. This was key." Umberto Eco doesn't talk about money in his video, but he does recommend calm: "You can't become a general if you haven't first been a corporal, sergeant, or lieutenant. Don't expect to win the Nobel Prize right away!" In fact, he also says he doesn't understand novelists who publish a book every year and "miss the pleasure of spending six, seven, or eight years preparing a story." For Jonathan Franzen, to write, you have to have a good time and find the level of fun and, at the same time, the concentration that tennis players must have: once you're in the game, enjoy it. That's how, he believes, you'll probably be able to make readers enjoy themselves. For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the key is to read—a lot and everything. Tessa Hadley agrees, expressing her surprise at having students tell her they didn't read. "But then," she would say, "why do you want to write?" TouchDon't miss this museum, which you can enjoy from the comfort of your couch.