June 2012
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May 2012
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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you...”
– Anne Lamott
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March 2012
4 posts
“The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading in order to...”
– Samuel Johnson
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“The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment...”
– Robertson Davies
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February 2012
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“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not...”
– Louis L’Amour
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“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of...”
– Erica Jong
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“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read...”
– Don Marquis
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“Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words!”
– Betty Smith
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“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they...”
– Elbert Hubbard
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“The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other...”
– James Baldwin
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“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping...”
– Edith Sitwell
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“The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of...”
– John Ruskin
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“Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the...”
– Matthew Battles, from Library: An Unquiet History
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“Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.”
– Anonymous
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“I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew...”
– Edgar Rice Burroughs
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“I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.”
– From Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami.
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“Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed...”
– James Joyce
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“In Los Angeles, all the loose objects in the country were collected as if...”
– Saul Bellow
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“America is the land where people find whatever they have lost.”
– Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum.
“Putting the cart before the horse: worrying about your publishing platform,...”
– John Kirriemuir
WatchThe great American road trip.
“I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“Every word written is a victory against death.”
– Michel Butor
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