June 2012
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The Early Jobs of 24 Famous Writers
mentalflossr:
How did famous writers make ends meet before their big breaks?
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“That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t...”
– Tim O’Brien (The Things They Carried)
Summer Fiction Sale here July 9 through 15! Everything from children’s and YA to comics to regular ole’ books. Get THE TRUTH.
(via housingworksbookstore)
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The Thought Fox | Ted Hughes
enjambing:
I imagine this midnight moment’s forest: Something else is alive Beside the clock’s loneliness And this blank page where my fingers move. Through the window I see no star: Something more near Though deeper within darkness Is entering the loneliness: Cold, delicately as the dark snow A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that now And again now, and now,...
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“What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man...”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (via sisyphusrising)
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“Last year, French publishers were successful in fixing the prices for ebooks as...”
– Are the French Better Book Lovers? (via bookriot)
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“There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people...”
– Ryan Adams (via creatingaquietmind)
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Exile
wwnorton:
My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands, — No, — nor my lips freed laughter since ‘farewell’, And with the day, distance again expands Voiceless between us, as an uncoiled shell. Yet, love endures, though starving and alone. A dove’s wings clung about my heart each night With surging gentleness, and the blue stone Set in the tryst-ring has but worn more bright.
-Hart...
“You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer...”
– David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress (via mythologyofblue)
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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily...”
– Ian McEwan; Atonement (via eyestoheart)
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“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography,...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (via nickmiller)
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“I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It’s probably what I...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via ophidiophobic)
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“The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else...”
– David Ignatow, The Art of Poetry No. 23 (via theparisreview)
“I like buying books.I think it’s just because I really like the look of...”
– Jack Williams, a boy who sometimes comes out with the best things. (via honestly-christina)
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Don’t forget to head over to the site and upload a picture of your reading environment! We’re curious! Tell us why you love reading there and why that special spot is better than the rest. Just upload the picture into the comments section, here.
“That fiction has power to alter reality is, at least in one sense, literally...”
– Charles Butler (via writersrelief)
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Hi guys, I'm super excited to announce that, as of... →
iloveyoulessthanpunk:
Yeah I know, pretty surreal, right? I applied through the official Chuck Palahniuk website around five days ago, and have spent the past day or so exchanging emails back and forth about it all… & I just woke up to find out the responsibility is now mine!
It’s all legit, I’ll be in regular contact with the webmaster/editor in chief of www.chuckpalahniuk.net making sure...
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