He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.
Jack London; The Call of the Wild
Me too.

Me too.

jenlovestoblog

Stories that don’t keep the writer up at night, won’t keep the reader up at night.
Robert Liparulo

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Wow, this is great. Informative. Just press play, you’ll be amazed, trust me.

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pipe-smokingrabbit:

This is a bookstore that seems to be made almost entirely out of books — down to its dramatic front doors. 

Livraria da Vila, Sao Paulo, Brazil

thekitandkaboodle:

little things i like | books & home libraries

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams; A Streetcar Named Desire
nevver: “I love to write and I assure you I write regularly … But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” — from the desk of J.D. Salinger

nevver:

“I love to write and I assure you I write regularly … But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.” — from the desk of J.D. Salinger

(by Shira Golding)

(by Shira Golding)

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teacoffeebooks

Nothing Is Lost: The 10 best closing lines of books

tenderbeat:

  1. The Great Gatsby
    by F Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
  2. Ulysses
    by James Joyce
    “I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me…
randomhouse: Kurt Vonnegut on censorship of his books (and in general): “All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States — and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!” [Source: Flavorpill] Hell yeah!

randomhouse:

Kurt Vonnegut on censorship of his books (and in general):

“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let’s get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States — and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”

[Source: Flavorpill]

Hell yeah!

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each of us will meet a different harbinger of personal failure, some innocent genius chosen by us for reasons having to do with what we see as our own inadequacies.
The only remedy to this I have found is to read a writer whose work is entirely different from another, though not necessarily more like your own—a difference that will remind you of how many rooms there are in the house of art.
Francine Prose; Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them.

everydaywell:

“Stories are powerful because they transport us into other people’s worlds but, in doing that, they change the way our brains work and potentially change our brain chemistry — and that’s what it means to be a social creature.” - Paul Zak

The demonstrates the link between literature - and the classic storytelling arc - and neuroscience. It reinforces the importance and relevance of an article I posted a few weeks ago on Narrative Medicine.


in-the-gloaming:

A collection of vintage board games including: Game of Authors and Star Authors by McLoughlin; Household Authors, Authors Improved; Game of Authors and Authors, all by Milton Bradley and The Game of Authors by Parker Brothers.

Cool.