March 2010
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“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
– Richard Bach
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“A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It`s a perverse taste, really, since...”
– Barbara Holland (via libraryland)
“Secondhand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast...”
– Virginia Woolf (via awritersruminations)
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“I am in a beautiful prison from which I can only escape by writing.”
– Anais Nin (via awritersruminations)
As I Sit Writing Here...
awritersruminations:
deadwriters:
We know we’re still 19 days away from Mr. Whitman’s deathday bash, but we couldn’t resist posting this lovely picture of his writing desk.
Just…absorb it..
As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui, May filter in my daily...
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“The secret, if you can’t start, is to begin without constraints. Deliberately...”
– #54 – Writing Hacks, Part 1: Starting « Scott Berkun (via steph)
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“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for...”
– Ernest Hemingway in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech
"For some of us, books are as important as almost...
fairlightday:
lovelygreenlight:
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)
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“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath
10 authors every Jane Austen fan should read →
“If you’ve been pining for books with that ineffable Austen touch to them, here are 10 authors whose works just may become your next literary obsession.”
“The best decoration in the world is a roomful of books.”
– Billy Baldwin
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“In the burning core of what I believe to be true about the art and craft of...”
– HARLAN ELLISON
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“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.”
– W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
A Writer's Ruminations: To all writers: →
About a week or so ago I got the idea of having writers who follow me write essays about a writer that they love. I shared this idea with another blogger, redheadbouquet, and she really liked the idea. So I am putting out the call to anybody who might like to participate. Choose a writer that you…
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“Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his...”
– Raymond Carver (via keremmermutlu) (via booklover) (via awritersruminations)
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“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the...”
– John Steinbeck (via wordpainting) (via awritersruminations)
