January 2011
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“I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that a man has is art,...”
– Lorraine Hansberry (via awritersruminations)
Jan 31st
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“What could I do if I couldn’t write? Writing was to be my rescue. I felt as if...”
– Janet Frame (An Angel at my Table, London: Paladin, 1987)
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Stephen King: 10 Best Books I Read in 2010 →
Top 10 favorite books Stephen King says he read in 2010 (but not that the book was published in that year). Nice list!
Jan 31st
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Word Painting Celebrates One Year!
Today marks the one year anniversary of Word Painting. Here’s a link to the first post I ever placed. I discovered Tumblr through a friend who sent me a link to one of Booklover’s posts (I wished I still had a link to that post). My friend sent the link a few months before I set up my own Tumblr blog. Once I placed the first post I was hooked and have since created 4120 posts!...
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“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds...”
– Anais Nin (via carsonlane)
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“…Go inside yourself. Discover the motive that bids you to write; examine whether...”
– Rilke (via merelymer)
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“i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the...”
– e. e. cummings (via yesyes)(via proustitute)
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“Any text is woven entirely with citations, references, echoes, cultural...”
– Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence from The Best American Essays of 2008 (via bearbearpdx)
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“Sometimes I wonder if the stories you tell begin to tug at your life, begin to...”
– Shadow Spinner-Susan Fletcher (via kizamon)
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“Do not be tossed away by your achievements or your fiascoes. Continue under all...”
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (via thepanicofbirds)
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“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his...”
– Nelson Mandela (via pandacake)
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“All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is...”
– Noam Chomsky (via graceisred)
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“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”
– Truman Capote (via libraryland)
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maga3721 asked: can you recommend some classic books?
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“If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is...”
– Sebastian Faulks (in Charlotte Gray)
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