December 2010
November 2010
“Read books. They are good for us.”
– Natalie Goldberg (via libraryland)
“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume,...”
– Susan Hill (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty...”
– Jon Krakauer (via feur)
“For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of...”
– Jonathan Lethem
“In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood.”
– Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—...”
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (via libraryland)
“I also loved books, and the ones I was lucky enough to own were reread, looked...”
– Kevin Henkes (via librarianpirate) (via booktumbling) (via booksbooksbooks) (via libraryland)
“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the...”
– Junot Díaz
“The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.”
– J.M. Coetzee
“Every room I’ve lived in since I was given my own room at eleven was lined...”
– Jonathan Lethem; The Disappointment Artist
“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people...”
– Carl T. Rowan (via libraryland) (via booklover)
fuckingephemeral asked: Hey, I want to be a writer someday but I have a hard time finding something to write about. Any prompts or resources? Tips? Where do you find prompts or anything?
10 Online Lit Mags You Should Be Reading →
fwriction:
Thanks to Flavorwire for this. I adore online literary journals, and I think you should, too. This is a great list (be sure to check “hungry for more” at the end, which notes fwriction favorites: The Collagist, Annalemma, and failbetter).
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily,...”
– Junot Díaz
“Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is...”
– J.M. Coetzee
“Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not...”
– Oliver Sacks
“I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the...”
– Jonathan Lethem
100 Notable Books of 2010 →
