February 2012
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January 2012
38 posts
“Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.”
– John Cheever (via theparisreview)
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon
"25 Things I Learned from Opening a Book Store" at... →
Essay on TV and Fiction at themillions.com →
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“It’s a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young...”
– John Green on why he writes for teens. More here.
“It’s not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it’s false.”
– Charles Olson
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Nocturnal Reading Attack (nok-tur-nl ree-ding uh-tak); noun
1. the unplannable experience of meeting a book, usually a novel, which refuses to be put down until you have met its conclusion at approximately 5:14 in the morning.
2. what The Fault in Our Stars gave me last night/this morning.
Example Sentence
I hadn’t had a nocturnal reading attack since Mark Zusak Book Thiefed me in the...
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“Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
– Annie Proulx
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“A lot of writing nowadays is very intellectual. Very wussy.”
– Barry Hannah
“We are living in a fake world… But we find reality in this fake world.”
– Haruki Murakami
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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl
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“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after...”
– Neil Gaiman
December 2011
22 posts
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via bornagain-hooligan)
Tamora Pierce on Ideas
I don’t really have a file [of ideas], it’s just in my head. I take the ideas out every now and then, and if they’re all sort of burnt black and scrunched up on the bottom of the pot, then I just clean out the pot and put it back. If an idea lives from examination to examination—I develop it a little more each time I take it out…tinker with it. So by the time I actually sit down to work on the...
