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)
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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!
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
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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)
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)