June 2012
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out...
shorely-noir:
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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“You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by...”
– Gene Wolfe (via writingquotes)
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...”
– Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you,...”
– Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper)
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“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do...”
– Mark Twain
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“Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is...”
– Sarah Waters (via writingquotes)
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“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
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“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to...”
– Frederic Chopin (via amethyst-azure)
I let my pen talk with my paper.
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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Ring)
“Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are.”
– Niccolo Machiavelli (via theguccislut)
“There is no story unless you’ve written it.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via writingquotes)
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“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
– E.B. White (via frecklesandfarce)
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How to steal like Ray Bradbury: “I took the print... →
austinkleon:
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college.”
While digging for a 1971 Ray Bradbury essay called “How, Instead of Being Educated in College, I Was Graduated From Libraries,” I came across this Paris Review interview again.
Loved this bit about him stealing magazines:
I used to steal magazines from a store on Genesee Street, in Waukegan, and read them and...
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“Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely...”
– Robert Anton Wilson (via writingquotes)
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via writingquotes)
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