June 2010
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Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject,...
– JOYCE CAROL OATES
AdviceToWriters - Home
(via ilovereadingandwriting)
Yes, yes, yes.
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Music is so enjoyable It ought to be a vice
I mean, seriously, aren’t all enjoyable things bad for you to some degree? Like how too much rich food gives you gout, too much chocolate ice-cream makes you fat, too much coffee gives you heart palpitations; up it another level, think cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, fast cars, casinos — these give you the high, but they also come with an exhorbitant price tag.
Or we can look at this from...
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With distaste, Harriet reflected upon how life had beaten down the adults she...
– The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
Let me not be like that.
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Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night.
– - William Blake (via Libraryland)
That would be perfect.
But modern living has a twisted way of complicating matters, we find ourselves struggling to live by simplicities such as this.
And may I ask where tumblring fits in?
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They thought blueprints were too sad,
So they made them yellow.
– Painters, Jewel
This line makes me smile every.single.time.
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Alone, With Words →
givemesomethingtoread:
Why writers can’t live to please their readers.
“But even those of us who write for publication can conclude, once we have clarified certain thoughts, that these thoughts are not especially valuable, or are not entirely convincing, or perhaps are simply not thoughts we want to share with others, at least not now.”
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Bookshopper →
Everything here makes me euphorically ecstatic.
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I thought thinking suited me better. I thought that while everyone went out and...
– (via where the fated)
I’d say I’m sometimes guilty of that, and I’m saying that like it’s not exactly a good thing. *shrugs*
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May 2010
45 posts