September 2010
1 post
October 2009
3 posts
“The young are eternally desperate. And books, they offer one hope —- that a...”
– (via mypostmodernlife) (via fieldmanual) (via libraries) (via booklover) (via clairefisher)
“In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas…a...”
– William S. Burroughs (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
houseofbooks:
Washington, 11 ott. - (Adnkronos) - A 160 anni dalla sua morte, lo scrittore statunitense Edgar Allan Poe avra’ infine i funerali che un autore della sua statura avrebbe gia’ meritato subito dopo la sua morte avvenuta nel 1849. Oggi a Baltimora, dove l’autore de ”Il Corvo” trascorse l’ultima fase della sua vita, saranno organizzati dei solenni funerali, degni di una delle figure...
September 2009
3 posts
“Whether or not you write well, write bravely.”
– Bill Stout (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Siate ordinati e meticolosi nella vostra vita borghese così da essere violenti e...”
– Flaubert (via micronemo) (via chettimar)
August 2009
11 posts
Call it Sabbatical
I’ve been to London, then to the seaside in Italy, now i’m leaving again for India.
I’m going to find myself, lose some weight, rediscover a friendship, forget some other, erase last drosses, close chapters, open new ones, put distances, change perspectives, reach a balance, face fears of what i know and what i don’t, sort out who i am where i am where i’m aiming to, regain energies desires...
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do...”
– Seneca
“You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime...”
– Wilfred Peterson
“Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You have made some notes, read some writing books, and done some research....”
– Pat Walsh
“If you think that something small cannot make a difference, try going to sleep...”
– Anonymous
July 2009
128 posts
“If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have nerve enough to...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you...”
– Will Shetterly
“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be...”
– John Ruskin
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
“For anyone who is: just keep writing. Keep reading. If you are meant to be a...”
– Robin McKinley
“If you think you’re boring your audience, go slower, not faster.”
– Gustav Mahler
“In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your...”
– William Gibson
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it...”
– E.L. Doctorow
“One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things...”
– Tobias Wolff
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must...”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much...”
– Stephen King
“If you are pointing out one of the things a story is about, then you are very...”
– Neil Gaiman
“Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one’s past; to...”
– Jules Feifer
“In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.”
– Albert Einstein
“The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of...”
– Joan Cocteau
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything....”
– Buddha
“It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one’s thoughts....”
– Isabel Colegate
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at,...”
– Joan Didion
“Authors who never give you something to disagree with never give you anything to...”
– Michael LaRocca
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your...”
– Mark Twain
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via quote-book)
“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to...”
– G.B. Shaw (via pdvmorris) (via clairefisher)
10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer
quote-book:
julie911:
Write.
Write more.
Write even more.
Write even more than that.
Write when you don’t want to.
Write when you do.
Write when you have something to say.
Write when you don’t.
Write every day.
Keep writing.
by Brian Clark
“…Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes,...”
– Stephen King (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“I believe we write our own stories and each time we think we know the end, we...”
– Little Black Book (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to...”
– S. Adams (via maluna) (via quote-book)