September 2011
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A place of musings.: 3leaf:writingadvice: by Chuck... →
3leaf:
writingadvice:
by Chuck Palahniuk
In six seconds, you’ll hate me. But in six months, you’ll be a better writer.
From this point forward—at least for the next half year—you may not use “thought” verbs. These include: Thinks, Knows, Understands, Realizes, Believes, Wants,…
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“She was a child carrying a very old soul and burdened with it, and wishing to...”
– Anaïs Nin
“Stella”
Winter of Artifice: Three Novelettes
(via fuckyeahanaisnin)
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Anais Nin in the analog age (republished from...
fuckyeahanaisnin:
ANAIS NIN BY R.S. BUTLER
FIRST PUBLISHED ON LITKICKS (2002)
Anais Nin was born February 21, 1903 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris, France and died January 14,1977 in Los Angeles, California. She moved to the United States in 1914 with her mother, singer Rosa Culmell and two brothers, Thorvald and Joaquin. Her father was Joaquin Nin, a Spanish pianist and composer, who...
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“…curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can...”
– Anaïs Nin (via fuckyeahkickassquotes)
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“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great...”
– Anaïs Nin (via enajcosta)
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“The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of...”
– Anais Nin, House of Incest (via aperfectcommotion)
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“I submit to life and then I find beautiful explanations for my act.”
– Anaïs Nin (via hellomeow)
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August 2011
17 posts
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“I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m...”
– The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (via thebookishdark)
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose...”
– Søren Kierkegaard, Either - Or (via makelovetothemoon)
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“A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It...”
– Robert Frost (via reaganation)
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“Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories.
There are things I wish I...”
– William S. Burroughs (via loverofstories)
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“Mostly we authors must repeat ourselves—that’s the truth. We have two or three...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, from “One Hundred False Starts” in A Short Autobiography (via scribnerbooks)
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“I am old when it is fashionable to be
young; I cry when it is fashionable to...”
– “as the sparrow” - Charles Bukowski (via fuckyeahbukowski)
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“she had this special way of looking into my eyes. it was neither coy nor sexy,...”
– charles bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“You know the typical crowd, “Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do?...”
– Charles Bukowski (via schwer)
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“the Bird. and the ocean down there. and bad battery. a lemon. the cops...”
– Notes of a dirty old man - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“My view is that the right book has to reach you at the right time, and no person...”
– Elif Baufman in Tom Perrotta, Francine Prose, and others on “great books” that aren’t great. - By Juliet Lapidos - Slate Magazine
(via housingworksbookstore)
“A great poem makes us experience a moment, and a great short story makes us...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via confusionis)
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The Best 100 Closing Lines From Books →
writingadvice:
“Don’t judge a book by its cover - instead, try and wait for the last line.”
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July 2011
26 posts
Author Insults
aperfectcommotion:
Gustave Flaubert on George Sand: “A great cow full of ink.”
Gertrude Stein on Ezra Pound: “A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”
Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri: “A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.” Vladimir Nabokov on Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Dostoevky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with...
The Onion, Memory
Divorced, but friends again at last, we walk old ground together in bright blue uncomplicated weather. We laugh and pause to hack to bits these tiny dinosaurs, prehistoric, crenelated, cast between the tractor ruts in mud. On the green, a junior Douglas Fairbanks, swinging on the chestnut’s unlit chandelier, defies the corporation spears— a single rank around the bole, rusty...
“You write in order to change the world … if you alter, even by a millimeter, the...”
– James Baldwin (via rainier) (via beautifulqalb)
“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to...”
– - Hermann Hesse
(via therainbowfairyprincess)
Batter my heart, three person’d God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow mee,’and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new. I, like an usurpt towne, to’another due, Labour to’admit you, but Oh, to no end, Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend, But is captiv’d, and...
“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I...”
– Invictus (via petiteathleat)
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you...”
– Ray Bradbury (via writingadvice)
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Gary Provost (via atomos)
“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via writingadvice)
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what...”
– J.K. Rowling (via growing-orbits)
“if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it....”
– Charles Bukowski, So you want to be a writer (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via writingadvice)
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via heartmindspirit)