May 2012
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“The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle In Time (via pizzaandbooks)
One of my most favorite!
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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via imfantasyparade)
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“If you wish to be a writer, write.”
– Epictetus (via writingquotes)
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“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via seabois)
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“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”
– Albert Einstein
(via sirmitchell)
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“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached”
– Aphorisms, Franz Kafka (via kidsonswings)
Only then will you learn the meaning of LIVING.
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde (via aquaticwonder)
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
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Neil Gaiman: Reposted as something that can be... →
neil-gaiman:
I’ve seem to be hitting writer’s block far too often now. My grade in my creative writing class is suffering because i don’t turn in anything because i’m never really satisfied with anything i do. all my good ideas seem to turn into bad ones once i write it down. How do you get pass writers…
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“Find the key emotion; this may be all you need to know to find your short story.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via writingquotes)
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“When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.”
– Vincent Starrett (via writingquotes)
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Neil Gaiman on Diana Wynne Jones →
neil-gaiman:
Click on the link and you can read the poem I wrote to Diana when she dedicated Hexwood to me.
dwj2012:
As astute DWJ readers know, Hexwood was dedicated to Neil Gaiman. Here he shares his delighted response.
“Reading Diana out loud is a delight. Her books unpack very tightly, with scarcely a word wasted in a hundred thousand.”
Diana Wynne Jones is one of my favorite...
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“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J. D. Salinger, Catcher In The Rye (via bookmania)
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“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”
– May Sarton, born May 3, 1912 (via wwnorton)
Words when wielded are sharper than swords and knives.
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“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
– Jonathan Franzen, How to be Alone: Essays (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner...”
– Truman Capote (via writingquotes)
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“You’re a poet. Welcome to hell.”
– James Wright to his son Franz, after his son wrote his first poem and sent it to him. (via boxofoctaves)
:D Cool dad!
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“People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (via supprosetry)
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“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people,...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez Love in the time of Cholera (via rotule)
The spell is called of many names - in common words it is called LOVE
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“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to...”
– Stephen King (via writingquotes)
A big laugh then face palm. :))
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“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”
– Dave Eggers, What Is the What
(via liquidnight)
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“‘A poem is a sword,’ Saheera Sharif, Mirman Baheer’s founder,...”
– “Why Afghan Women Risk Death to Write Poetry” by Eliza Griswold (Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting)
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“For some moments in life there are no words.”
– Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (via kari-shma)
Perhaps that’s why, poets mourn for losing their ability with words when something is so surreal before them - so majestic and beautiful that no words can give it justice enough.
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