March 2012
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“One should never underestimate the power of books.”
– Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
“If you stand
there long enough the air will thicken
with dusk and...”
– Philip Levine, from “How to Get There” (via proustitute)
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his...”
– Sylvia Plath, Poet and author of ‘The Bell Jar’
(via sexismandthecity)
“I think & think & think, I’ve thought myself out of happiness one...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via fleuretta)
“An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is...”
– David Deutsche (via nathanielstuart)
“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. And sometimes if...”
– John Steinbeck on writing (from The Paris Review)
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
– Erica Jong (via nirvikalpa)
February 2012
“I don’t have any sense other than that writing is extremely difficult for me....”
– Junot Dìaz (via writingadvice)
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“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
– John Updike, A Month Of Sundays (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“A story untold could be the one that kills you.”
– Pat Conroy
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“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank...”
– Neil Gaiman: On Writing (via fortuneandglory)
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“I’ve got death inside me. It’s just a question of whether or not I...”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise
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“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is...”
– Paul Auster, Moon Palace
“Isolate city spread alongside water,
Posted with white towers, she keeps her...”
–
Philip Larkin
(via lastchatwithphontaine)
nakedwonders:
what if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of his grave and sprinkles nowhere with me and you?
-e. e. cummings
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“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: A boy who loves you.”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via papercrushed)
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"Madmen" by Billy Collins
They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is done. If you let it out too early, they warn, your poem will fly away, and this time they are absolutely right. Take the night I mentioned to you I wanted to write about the madmen, as the newspapers so blithely call them, who attack art, not in reviews, but with breadknives and hammers in the quiet museums of Prague and ...
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“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
– Joseph Joubert