April 2012
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our...”
– Isaac Asimov
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“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don’t...”
– Nick Hornby; How to Be Good
“Only write what you know is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I...”
– Actually, this time I’m quoting me, in my journal:
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2003/03/phrase-only-write-what-you-know-is.asp
(via neil-gaiman)
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Great Stories Should Come in Great Packages
As much as certain writers and hardcore readers complain about the publishing industry allegedly wanting nothing more than to make money, there is a strong case that can be made for the proper marketing of books. Seriously, ask yourself how many times you have not known about a book, been in a bookstore and judged a book by its cover? It happens. It has happened to me in the past. I’ve never...
Who is Your Favorite Author/s?
Mine are: J.M. Coetzee, Richard Russo, Victor Hugo, David Foster Wallace, Anne Lamott, Francine Prose, John Irving, and others.
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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the...”
– James Branch Cabell; The Silver Stallion
[This, of course, could be circumstantial.]
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Get Off Tumblr and Go Read a Book.
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“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
– Virginia Woolf
