June 2010
rockstartonight asked: I bet a lot of people have already asked you what your favorite books are. What I am curious about is who or what got you reading books? What made you realize that this is your passion? Was it a certain book? Someone in your life? Thanks for taking the time to answer my question!
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May 2010
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“The most solid advice … for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe...”
– William Saroyan Some of the most excellent advice we’ve heard in a long time! (via deadwriters) Very true, take in all of life as fully as possible. Writers need to be reminded of this often.
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10 famous authors whose works were rejected... →
1. Stephen King  Mr. King received dozens of rejections for his first novel, Carrie; he kept them tidily nailed to a spike under a timber in his bedroom. One of the publishers sent Mr. King’s rejection with these words: “We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias. They do not sell.” 2. William Golding Mr. Golding’s Lord of the Flies was...
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Agent 3Z: Some Famous authors whose works were... →
abstractdreams: Vladimir Nabokov Mr. Nabokov’s Lolita was greeted by one publisher with these words: “…overwhelmingly nauseating, even to an enlightened Freudian…the whole thing is an unsure cross between hideous reality and improbable fantasy. It often becomes a wild neurotic daydream…I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years.” Sylvia Plath  According to one publisher,...
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michaelskanks asked: I found this picture of what looks like a library (is it?): http://chzoverkill9000.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/129183494066359884.jpg

I've been following you for a while, and this reminded me of your love of reading and books. What do you think of this?
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“Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be...”
– William Styron
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“There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of...”
– Washington Irving (via nathanielstuart) (via booklover)
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ListenGreg Laswell; Your Ghost
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“The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in...”
– Henry Giles (via pithia) (via awritersruminations) (via booklover)
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“I wordplay with myself.”
– John Lennon
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ListenDon Henley—The Heart Of The Matter
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“I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my...”
– Paul Auster, interviewed by Jonathan Lethem (the Believer Book of Writers talking to Writers) (via winterlief) (via booklover)
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“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
– W. H. Auden
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“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
– W. H. Auden
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“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are...”
– Albert Einstein (via sweetadrenaline) (via simplyadreamer) (via booklover)
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“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them...”
– W. H. Auden
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