We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
On the prowl for that one book … the one that will change your life.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
Nice study and home library.
My copy of the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes Volume 1: Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
My life is complete now. It doesn’t introduce the long stories “A Study in Scarlet”, “The Sing of Four” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles” but only the short stories under the titles The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Other features in this copy are the short biographies of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, original illustrations of Sidney Paget from Strand Magazine, conspiracy theories on Holmes, Moriarty and Irene Adler, information about several things mentioned in the stories and London between 1880s-1900s (you really breathe the Victorian atmosphere and feel like you are actually wandering at the streets of London thanks to these great illustrations of Sidney Paget), etc. So it is almost a full package for Sherlockians. Mine is the Turkish translation and the English copy may be seen here: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/436268.The_New_Annotated_Sherlock_Holmes_Volume_I
I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.
Balys Buračas (1897 - 1972)
When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.
Window in the way? Just work around it.
Libreria Fahreneit 451Piazza Campo dei Fiori, Rome, Italy
Infinite Jest Characters by ElDangerrible
Still ranting about e-readers?
A few days ago a customer came into our store with a Nook Color device. It had died on her after around three years of use. I asked her how many books she had on it. “57,” she said.
57? I thought. In three years?
She bought a new Nook.
Consider this: between the two readers she spent around $526.00 (and that’s without buying the 57 e-books), she could have bought 57 books for less than she paid for both e-readers. Hmm …
Book are better than sleep.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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