January 2012
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“Planning to write is not writing. Outlining … researching … talking...”
– E.L. Doctorow
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“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”
– George Eliot
Watchbooklover:
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (by Moonbot Studios)
submitted by whimsicaljane
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Farther versus Further
I was watching The Day After Tomorrow last night and Dennis Quaid’s character made a grammatical error (yes, I can be a freakin’ grammar geek sometimes. I try not to be too anal about it). He asked the question, “How much further do we have to go?” What his character should have asked is “How much farther do we have to go?”
Farther = actual distance. When...
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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken...”
– Anton Chekhov
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watts (via neil-gaiman)
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“Dissatisfied writers tend to create great novels.”
– TBV
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“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in...”
– Ezra Pound
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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
[I’ve posted this before, but it is so worth another look!]
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“You know, it’s hard work to write a book. I can’t tell you how many...”
– Ellen DeGeneres; The Funny Thing Is…
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“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Habits of a Reader
whispering-literature:
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“Writers don’t merely write words. They take existing words put them...”
– TBV
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“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry...”
– Stephen King
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via dewdropsoflove)
“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.”
– Henry Stevens (via fsgbooks)
W. W. Norton: First Lines from New Books Out... →
wwnorton:
“More than forty years ago, a wave of popular fascination with a musical group distinguished by youth, charm, great talent, and exceptional hair was dubbed a form of ‘mania’ by the press. We have not seen such a case of mania again…until recently, with the emergence of ‘Dudamania,’ which…
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“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion,...”
– Dave Barry; Dave Barry Turns Fifty
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David Foster Wallace's 10 favorite books →
[I’ve read various literary critics declare that they thought Wallace gave this list as tongue in cheek or that perhaps he was trying to make a point about what we read. I’m not sure any of these suggestions are warranted. I do know, after a year or so of listening to interviews, reading Wallace, and hearing him make various statements about how some popular authors and their work are...
“And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom...”
– David Foster Wallace (via musicwordscolourslights)
[Why did DFW have to die? He was so crucial to literary thinking!] 