September 2011
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“‘Sleep is good,’ he said. ‘And books are better.’”
– George R. R. Martin (via thisisartinterpretation)
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“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come...”
– Catherine Drinker Bowen
“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”
– Mortimer J. Adler
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“But here is my favorite thing: Because you banned my books, every kid in that...”
– Pat Conroy in The Open Road Integrated Media Blog > A Letter to the Editor of the Charleston Gazette on Teachers, Censorship, and Banned Books (via bookish)
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Pre-Writing Preparation →
By Elspeth Antonelli
You’d rather be writing, but first you have to…
10. Reach into the freezer and get something out for dinner. WARNING: You may discover things in your freezer older than your youngest child. This has happened to me. This brings up all sorts of other issues that may further delay your writing. 9. Organize your desk - including all the drawers. This could take...
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“Everybody who writes is engaged in the remarkable enterprise of making...”
– Ben Yagoda, The Sound on the Page (via nickmiller)
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How to be a great writer (excerpt)
litreactor:
get a large typewriter and as the footsteps go up and down outside your window hit that thing hit it hard make it a heavyweight fight
make it the bull when he first charges in
and remember the old dogs who fought so well: Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.
if you think they didn’t go crazy in tiny rooms just like you’re doing now without women without food without hope then...
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares...”
– Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
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“I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of...”
– John Ashbery (via theparisreview)
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka - Letter to Oskar Pollak (27 January 1904)
“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.”
– Truman Capote
“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books -...”
– William Ewart Gladstone (via scrapboop)
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“There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the...”
– Sophy Burnham
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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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“Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don’t...”
– Iain Banks
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via tacit-delinquency)
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“We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully:...”
– Natalie Goldberg
“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim...”
– Karl Legerfeld
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“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of...”
– Edgar Allen Poe (via inwardheartbeats)
“It is not true we have only one life to love, if we can read, we can live as...”
– S.I. Hayakawa
