February 2011
rodwen asked: This blog is fabulous! It was so hard to find a good writer's blog where the writer actually TALKS about writing! I love this blog, and I would reblog every entry, but I'd ben here forever, and that means less time enjoying all the quotes and writerly thoughts.
From one writer to another: Thank you, thank you, thank you!
From one writer to another: Thank you, thank you, thank you!
January 2011
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a haiku for you.
Ten fingers falling
rhythmically creating words.
The keyboard is king.
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perfectlolita started following you.
Thank you perfectlolita! You are my 700th follower!
Thanks so much to allll my followers. I love you guys! Keep reading and writing! :)
First words make great last words.
I love when novels end with someone saying hello.
You can't just love fictional characters more than...
tennants-:
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via thegirlwiththemessyhair)
475. I wish I could read books for a living. That...
I do! :)
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Letter to a Young Novelist →
somewhereoverthesunnovel:
You don’t learn love from listening to people who have loved telling you what to do and not do. You lay in bed with a person and do or not do things. You spend time in the nooks and crannies of who they are. One person at a time you decide what you love in people.
You don’t learn to write from…
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GOBLIN ACNE.
aravenlikeawritingdesk:
every time I read Harry Potter they’re all like,
‘ugh, exams. ugh, assignments. ugh, homework.’
bitch if I went to Hogwarts I’d be like
LA DI DA SEVEN FEET OF PARCHMENT ON GOBLIN ACNE EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURTS I AM SO HAPPY WRITING THAT ESSAY, OH WE HAVE AN EXAM AWESOME LETS GO DO MAGIC.
So true… even at 25 I still want to go to...
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What was the first book you read?
Mine was Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock.
I actually just maxed out my library card.
thelonesomecrowdedwest:
They won’t let me request anything else because I already have 50 things on hold. so dissapointing HPL..
On the other hand, I feel incredibly cool.
This girl or guy is my hero.
“It’s cliché to say, “Theirs is a forbidden love.” Instead you say, “Mom has...”
– Jane Lebak, from “Querying The Cliché.” (via oliveryeh)
“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”
– Truman Capote (via libraryland)
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I hate it when I write an email and reread it...
but as soon as I hit [send] I notice a typo. UGH.
And the Oscar goes too... Books! →
blackbondbooks:
Four of the 10 best picture nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, which will be presented February 27, are based on books. Adaptation has once again proven to be an Oscar-pleasing formula in the major categories: The Social Network, based on The Accidental Billionaires: The…
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde (via midnightings)
jacquelineboek asked: Where do you work. live? New York? Im thinking of getting into the book publishing business after I graduate, how'd you get involved if you don't mind me asking :)
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Anonymous asked: Just saw you mention that you worked in book publishing ; that's so sweet! I was thinking about getting into that as well. What exactly do you do and how did you get there ?
venusinpurrs asked: I, too, am a writer and I find it very inspiring to read you and yours. Are you studying anywhere?
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I've been writing more poetry lately than anything...
And it feels like the novel is suffering. I’m neglecting it, leaving it behind. My thinking has been so fragmented lately, fundamentally broken in some way. And you can’t make cohesive characters and plot and storylines with thinking like this. At least, I should say, I can’t. But this kind of thinking is seemingly perfect for poetry. At least, I should say, the poetry I tend...
“Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it.”
– Natalie Goldberg (via libraryland)
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“Dreams alone won’t get you far.”
– (via calling-all-writers)
This one hurts.
Whatever, Screw That Jerk, You *TOTALLY* Want To... →
oliveryeh:
In response to his other post, “No, Seriously, I’m Not F#cking Around, You Really Don’t Want To Be A Writer.”
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I seem to be in a state of perpetual consumption.
Give me quality Drama or Comedy. I watch and laugh and cry until I fall asleep.
Give me good, real Music. I listen for hours.
Give me sweet, tasty Food, and lots of it. I chew and swallow until there is none left at all.
Give me pretty Faces, pretty Clothes, pretty Bodies. I stare at their loveliness unceasingly.
Give me Books. I devour them.
It seems like something is missing.
It seems...
There are not enough hours in the day for all of...
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O trespass sweetly urged. Give me my sin again.
(via porcellian)
“… Keep writing … Keep reading, and…to quote Master P: Don’t talk about it—be...”
– Danyel Smith, interview, 2005 (via danyelsmith)
