June 2011
“Forget rules. Forget getting published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”
—Melinda Haynes (via musingsofabookworm)
“When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.”
—Enrique Jardiel Poncela (via writingadvice)
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair—the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.”
—Stephen King (via writingadvice)
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
—E.L. Doctorow (via writingadvice)
“I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o’clock every morning.”
—William Faulkner (via writingadvice)
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. She read books as one would breathe ether, to sink in and die.”
—Annie Dillard, The Living: A Novel (via thenightbookmobile)
“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
—François Mauriac (via libraryland)
Recommend book blogs similar to yours?
Here you go…
http://lifeofliterature.tumblr.com/
http://bookwormshaven.tumblr.com/
You need to post heaps more pictures or I will suffer from a withdrawal! I miss your posts♥
(your my top tumblr crush at 14% hehheh...[: )
I am so sorry I have been away for so long. But I am back now and things should be getting back to normal.
:-)
“Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.”
— J.K. Rowling, Words with JAM magazine (via magicworks)
