May 2010
April 2010
“The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to...”
– Jacques Ellul (via libraryland) (via awritersruminations) (via booklover)
“There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to...”
– Ralph Ellison
“Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the...”
– Charlotte Bronte
“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and...”
– Gore Vidal
“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Write about the emotions you fear the most.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson
54 Tips For Writers, From Writers
awritersruminations:
the-write-idea:
The entire writing process is fraught with perils. Many writers would argue that the hardest part of writing is beginning. When asked what was the most frightening thing he had ever encountered, novelist Ernest Hemingway said, “A blank sheet of paper.”
Other writers believe that ideas are easy, it’s in the execution of those ideas that the hard work really...
predatorywaspobserver:
Allen Ginsberg reads...
“Probably for every man there is at least one city that sooner or later turns...”
– J.D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew”
I’m going to tell you that there is nothing better then men who love women. Who can be wholly and truly, uncomfortably undone by one. That is the only sort of man worth having.
(via beenthinking)
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the...”
– Annie Proulx
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“Do you know what happens when you hurt people? When you hurt people, they begin...”
– The God of Small Things (via That Girl)
(via maddieness)
(via fuckyeahreading)
“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I...”
– Joan Didion from The Year of Magical Thinking
“Three things I never do as a reader (things I’ve learned over many...”
– Word Painting
“i’m going to find myself a girl
who can show me
what laughter means
and we’ll...”
– Jackson Browne, “The Pretender” (via paintbynumberdreams)
“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become...”
– Frank Outlaw (via justbesplendid) (via leavemethismess)
“All mankind love a lover.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, ‘Write...”
– Annie Proulx
“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see...”
– Don Delillo
“Don’t get it right, just get it written.”
– James Thurber 