June 2011
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“The thread of the story fell to the ground, so I went down on my hands and knees...”
– Iman Mersal (via theparisreview)
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– Albert Einstein
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“I do the menial work of getting it down on paper, because I’m the designated typist, and I’m also the person whose job it is to hold the lantern while the kid does the digging. What is the kid digging for? The stuff. Details and clues and images, invention, fresh ideas, an intuitive understanding of people. I tell you, the holder of the lantern doesn’t even know what the...
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“I think if I have any particular hope it’s this: that we all should simply be...”
– Maurice Sendak (via libraryland)
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This writing-every-day thing is both wonderful and... →
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WatchEngland by Mumford & Sons; originally by The National
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Writing vs. Acting: Control and Collaboration...
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A huge part of writing is painful and excruciating—even the most talented writers produce a ton of terrible drafts; it’s just the nature of the beast. Yet, even if you’ve been scribbling away for hours, producing nothing but crap, when you stumble upon a flash of brilliance, when you produce a page or a paragraph or a sentence that works, you feel redeemed. You can pluck...
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Have you ever choked on your spit so badly that you stopped everything you were doing, doubled over, and sucked air through your lips like a reverse version of the cartoon cloud that blows the storm into the village?
I don't think you quite understand how fascinated... →
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