March 2012
“I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people...”
– Hugh Mackay (via aeloquence)
February 2012
“Because it’s a story that reminds us of the worst part of humanity. We’re living...”
– Jennifer Lawrence on The Hunger Games (via sharetheturnips)
“She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people...”
– Jeffery Deaver (via amandaonwriting)
“Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the...”
– Jeff Buckley (via jeffbuckleyforever)
“No, I don’t think you’re gonna be single forever, and also I don’t understand...”
– John Green (x)
“Right now, $4 billion of your tax dollars subsidize the oil industry every year...”
– President Obama (via kileyrae)
“I’m not anti-social. I’m pro-solitude.”
– Author Unknown (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Beating Writer's Bane: 50 Musical Terms Used in... →
mrkgt:
Have you noticed how many terms for musical phenomena have been adopted into general discourse? Sometimes it’s difficult to determine whether the musical term was later associated with a general definition, or whether the general usage came first, but take note of these musically…
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the...”
– Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via mrwildflowers)
“Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story....”
– Tad Williams (via writingquotes)
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via orchestre)
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...”
– Andrew Boyd (via astrometry)
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via positive-outlooks)
“1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400...”
– John Steinbeck on “how to keep from going nuts” while writing.
From Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45.
via openculture which also has a great video of Steinbeck’s 1962 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(via kenyatta)