March 2010
“We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present—your future—a time...”
– Thomas Pynchon
“Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing...”
– Iris Murdoch
“When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is...”
– Joyce Carol Oates
“I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting...”
– Alice Hoffman
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will...”
– Anne Lamott (from Bird by Bird)
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn...”
– Jules Renard
“As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There’s no reason why not. And...”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.”
– Blaise Pascal
“The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we’re reading,...”
– Joyce Carol Oates
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
– Francoise Sagan
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
– Richard Bach (via ilovereadingandwriting)
“…to write a sentence again. How delightful to feel it form and curve under my...”
– Virginia Woolf (via awritersruminations) (via booklover)
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They depen and widen and...”
– Anne Lamott (from Bird by Bird)
“The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”
– William Faulkner
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation....”
– Thomas Pynchon (from Gravity’s Rainbow)
“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
– William Faulkner
“Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of...”
– Francine Prose
atammour asked: what's in your opinion the best poem ever written from a man to a woman? would you post it?
“I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I...”
– The Shawshank Redemption (via lostinthesounds) (via quote-book) (via teatime-with-nikki)
sundown asked: what's the thing you like most about books/writing? :)
