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January 2012

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“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.” —Stephen Fry (via creativecloud)
Jan 30, 2012392 notes
“There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” —Frank Serafini (via booksandnerds)
Jan 30, 20121,246 notes
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Jan 29, 20127 notes
#birdhouse #camus #cardinal #invincible #quote #winter #l.r. ogden
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” —Maya Angelou
Jan 29, 20126 notes
#maya angelou #lit #feminism #quote
“dwell in possibility…” —emily dickinson
Jan 29, 20129 notes
#lit #emily dickinson #quote
Jan 29, 201263 notes
“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” —Walt Disney
Jan 27, 20125 notes
#lit #disney #books #quote
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Jan 26, 20129 notes
#midnight in paris #owen wilson #lit
sexy poetry

Matt Bomer (White Collar’s Neal Caffrey) reading Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty”

Jan 26, 2012153 notes
#lit #lord byron #poetry #white collar #neal caffrey #matt bomer
Jan 23, 2012115,513 notes
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.” —Flannery O’Connor (via pavorst)
Jan 22, 2012250 notes
“All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes reasonably easily. Plumbers don’t get plumber’s block, and doctors don’t get doctor’s block; why should writers be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working, and then expects sympathy for it?” —Philip Pullman
Jan 22, 2012
“I am alive and you are alive and so we must fill the air with our words.” —Dave Eggers, What is the What (via pavorst)
Jan 21, 2012438 notes
“Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in.” —E. B. White (via theparisreview)
Jan 21, 2012174 notes
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Jan 21, 20128,391 notes
“These days, though, I don’t believe any of that. I think that the idea of Heaven is silly for other reasons. When people try to say what Heaven is like, it just sounds deadly deadly deadly dull. Standing around singing and eating nectar or something and looking at God and praising Him and being very very very good. Imagine that! YAWN YAWN YAWN YAWN! Who’d want to do that for century after century after century? … I bet that even the angels get fed up with it all. I bet they want to eat bananas and marmalade and chocolate, and to look at things like clouds of flies, and to climb trees or to play with cats. I bet they look at us and envy us for being human. I bet that somethimes they even want to be like us. Except they might get put off by the fact that we die.
Anyway, in the end, I don’t really believe in Heaven at all, and I don’t believe in perfect angels. I think that this might be the only Heaven there can possibly be, the world we live in now, but we haven’t quite realized it yet. And I think that the only possible angels might be us. THIS MIGHT BE HEAVEN! WE MIGHT BE LIVING IN HEAVEN RIGHT NOW! AND WE MIGHT BE THE ANGELS!
Is that stupid? No, it’s not! Look at the blackbird, the way the sunlight glistens on it. Look at the way it shimmers, the way its blackness glints with silver, purple, green, and even white beneath the sun. Listen to its song. Look at the way it jumps into the sky. Look how the leaves are coming out from the buds. Feel how strong the tree is and feel the beat of my heart and the sun on my skin and the air on my cheek. Think of the things like the human voice, the solar system, the fur of a cat, the sea, bananas, a duck-billed platypus. Look at the things that we’ve made: houses and pavements and walls and steeples and roads and cars and songs and poems, and yes I know that it’s a long long way from being perfect. But perfection would be very dull and perfection isn’t the point.
 !PERFECTION IS BORING!  !PERFECTION IS EMPTY! !PERFECTION IS NOTHINGNESS!
Look at the world. Smell it, taste it, listen to it, feel it, look at it. Look at it! And I know horrible things happen for no good reason. Why did my dad die? What the point of famine and fear and darkness and war? I don’t know! I’m just a kid! How can I know answers to things like that? But this horrible world is so blooming beautiful and so blooming weird that sometimes I think it’ll make me faint!
JUST LOOK AT THE MINDBLOWING LIPSMACKING WONDERFUL AMAZING BEAUTIFUL STUNNING MARVELLOUS GORGEOUS LOVELY LOVELINESS OF OUR WORLD!”
—David Almond, My Name is Mina
Jan 19, 201213 notes
#david almond #my name is mina #inspiration #quote #lit
Play
Jan 19, 20123 notes
“As I look out on all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don’t see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamond silk dresses. I don’t see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” —Brian Selznick, Hugo
Jan 19, 20126 notes
#the invention of hugo cabret #brian selznick #hugo #lit #quote
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Jan 17, 201216 notes
#lit #maurice sendak #max #photography #quote #wild things #l.r. ogden
“

here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
and to your (in my arms flowering so new)
self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain

and here’s to silent certainly mountainside; and to
a disappearing poet of always, snow
and to morning; and to morning’s beautiful friend
twilight (and a first dream called ocean) and

let must or if be dammed with whomever’s afraid
down with ought with because with every brain
which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel (but up
with joy; and up with laughing and drunkenness)

here’s to one undiscoverable guess
of whose skill each world of blood is made
(whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

”
—E.E. Cummings (via rockwriteon)
Jan 17, 2012180 notes
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Listen

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“Ode to the Sea” by Pablo Neruda

Read by Ralph Fiennes

Jan 12, 2012201 notes
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.” —Gary Provost, quoted in Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools
Jan 8, 20122 notes
#lit #writing #words
Jan 8, 2012
“‘I would like you to read my novel and get your opinion.’ ‘I hate it.’ ‘You haven’t even read it yet.’ ‘If it’s bad, I’ll hate it. If it’s good, then I’ll be envious and hate it even more. You don’t want the opinion of another writer.’” —Midnight in Paris, Gil and Hemingway
Jan 8, 201210 notes
#Midnight in paris #hemingway #lit #owen wilson #writing
Jan 8, 201215 notes
Jan 3, 20127 notes
#beach #e.e. cummings #inspiration #lit #michigan #photography #poetry #quote #l.r. ogden
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.” —C. S. Lewis (via larmoyante)
Jan 3, 20121,356 notes
Jan 3, 2012530 notes
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” —Neil Gaiman (via troubled)
Jan 3, 20121,465 notes
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