August 2010
July 2010
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m...”
– — Margaret Atwood (The Tent) (via teachingliteracy)
“I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them—with the books...”
– Eudora Welty (via awritersruminations)
“Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write...”
– HARLAN ELLISON
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“Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get....”
– IAIN BANKS
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“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but...”
– — Margaret Atwood (Dancing Girls) (via teachingliteracy)
ettys-bookshelf-deactivated2010 asked: :D Which library is the picture of that you posted, with the circle windows? I actually NEED to go there! :}
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“Since we must and do write each our own way, we may during actual writing get...”
– Eudora Welty (via awritersruminations)
The Future of the Academic Library →
teachingliteracy:
infoneer-pulse:
The Future of the Library — Ten Things to Keep in Mind
1. Within ten years, most academic information will be available in digital format.
2. The campus network is vital to your information delivery system/library. Now is the time to assure that it is robust and can remain so.
3. Librarians today need to be: intellectually curious, collaborative,...
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“I can’t help but to write, I have an inner need for it. If I’m not in the middle...”
– Kaari Utrio
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“❝All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives...”
– George Orwell
“❝Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always...”
– Susan Sontag
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“❝Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try...”
– Barbara Kingsolver
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“❝Writing wasn’t easy to start. After I finally did it, I realized it was the...”
– Virpi Hämeen-Anttila
“❝When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), ‘Of Human Bondage’, 1915
“❝When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to...”
– Michel de Montaigne
“❝The basic rule given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective...”
– ༺༻ John Steinbeck
“❝Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck...”
– ༺༻ Harlan Ellison
“❝All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and...”
– ༺༻Charles Beaumont
