January 2011
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“To be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to...”
– E.E. Cummings (via persephonelove)
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“What was the point of fiction if not to edit one’s reality? If not to rewrite...”
– Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December (via readingandwritingjunkie)
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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
– Lewis Carroll (via quote-book)
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“Why waste a second not loving who you are?”
– Natasha Bedingfield [Freckles] (via quote-book)
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“Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes...”
– Eudora Welty (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
– Catcher in the Rye (via followxmexdown)
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whyyy
wayneth:
I have a book hangover.
When ever I read something good, that I really enjoy, nothing else is really good for a few days. I can’t even watch television right now. Everything just pales in comparison to reading a good story, life looks dim. Nothing draws me in the way a good book can.
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“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully...”
– Henry Ward Beecher (via bookoasis)
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“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
– Marcel Proust (via reading-is-fun)
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teachingliteracy:
60 Awesome Search Engines for Serious Writers
writingadvice:
Finding the information you need as a writer shouldn’t be a chore. Luckily, there are plenty of search engines out there that are designed to help you at any stage of the process, from coming up with great ideas to finding a publisher to get your work into print. Both writers still in college and those on their...
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“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via libraryland)
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I can't help smiling every time I read the first...
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“Really, Dumbledore, you think you can explain all this in a letter? These people...”
– J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter (Bloomsbury Publishing, London: 1997) 15. (via encrebleunoir)
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I wish...
sb130190:
…I could read books for a living. That would be wonderful.
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experience the planets →
apphysicsblog:
guys, this is crazy
you should check this out
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“1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing...”
– Zadie Smith’s ten rules for writing fiction. (via unicornology) (via baringmysoul) (via writingadvice) (via the-write-idea) (via teachingliteracy)
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“And while the abilities of the nine-hundredth abridger of the History of...”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Wordsworth Limited Editions, Hertfordshire: 2000) 23. (via encrebleu-noir-)
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“Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer (via tobeshelved)
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“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a...”
– Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
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“We are so used to releasing words, we don’t know what to do with them if they...”
– David Levithan. “The Realm Of Possibility” (via bookishbeezus)
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via mandabythesea)
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via bookoasis)