June 2010
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“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a...”
– Oscar Wilde (via deadwriters)
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“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones...”
– Hart Crane (via deadwriters)
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“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the...”
– Mark Twain (via deadwriters)
I don’t think people realize how grueling and intricate the revision process is. They say that everybody writes, but only writers know how to revise.
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via deadwriters)
It’s not about making something pretty. It’s about the back-breaking process of making something.
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WatchMeet Ruby the Feminist. She’s 7.
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An Excerpt: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South...
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Things I got from my dad.
The compulsion to play car steeling wheels like guitars
An affinity for fruity candy
The need to constantly organize and get rid of things
Superhuman strength (or so I tell myself)
A love of breakfast cereal
A strangely broad and (broadly strange) taste in movies
A soon-to-be bald head (…I don’t wanna talk about it)
Things I wish I had inherited:
A good sense of direction
The...
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via deadwriters)
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Reasons Why You Should Recommend Me, the Fourth
Because if sexually confused diary entries can get 60 recommendations, I should at least get a few.
Click here to recommend me for the Creative Writing Directory. ‘Cause you’re nice like that.
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WatchAn interview with a new powerhouse talent in the literary world. Meet Cameron King.
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...”
– Vladimir Nabakov (via deadwriters) (via prettybooks)
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“Writers aren’t exactly people…. they’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via deadwriters)
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer (via doormaker)
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“Somehow she knew that you didn’t get many moments like this in your life:...”
– Wall, Neil Gaiman (via andreantoinette, neilgaiman)
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“Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to a form of mental agoraphobia, and...”
– J. K. Rowling
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Margaret Atwood.
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your room, house, half-acre, square mile, island, country, knowing at last how you got there, and say, I own this, is the same moment when the trees unloose their soft arms from around you, the birds take back their language, the cliffs fissure and collapse, the air moves back from you like a wave and you...
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WatchIt took me a year, but I finally sorted through all my tour footage. This video is the result.
Thanks SO much to those of you who came out to Jenna and Gabe’s Variety Show Fundraiser Thing: The Sequel (where this video premiered). Your support means the world to us!
If it’s at all within your means, please help send me on another adventure with Invisible Children, this time to...
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“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing....”
– ~ Mark Twain (via gatekeeper)
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Gabe: I'm a contradiction: doing arts and crafts while watching Terminator Salvation.
Kayla: I like it. I'm going to pop in Inglorious Basterds to fall asleep to.
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(a conversation via text)
Gabe: I ate pretty well today...until the cake.
Kayla: Oh no! Cake is man's mortal enemy.
Gabe: I had to eat it. For science.
Kayla: What kind?
Gabe: Apple crunch with cream cheese frosting.
Kayla: Oh my gooooodd, from where? That sounds delicious ...this is like sexting. Food porn style.
Gabe: This IS like food sexting! And my mom made it....ew, those two things don't belong together.
Kayla: I think they do. I love Momma Lia's cake. I dream about it.
Gabe: The apple crunch is inspired.
Kayla: She's mastered her craft. I want a slice.
Gabe: Everybody wants a slice.
Kayla: That was my motto in grade school.
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“While I don’t remember commencement, I do remember my senior year of college...”
– Anderson Cooper’s 2010 Commencement Address at Tulane University (via kklausser)
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WatchScott Pilgrim vs. The World Full Trailer
I love this director.
(via katewashere)
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An interesting article on indie films and how... →
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