February 2012
105 posts
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via blankpagesandinvisibleink)
Student of Serenity: Rules For Writing →
suckerinsixty:
From Jonathan Franzen:
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money.
Never use the word “then” as a conjunction – we have “and” for this…
“This is the situation we find ourselves in; when memory has been reduced to a...”
– Colin Dickey, reviewing ” the best contemporary book in English that most Americans have never heard of.” (via millionsmillions)
“Every
heart writes a different letter
of winter to its cold.
Icicles on sheet...”
– Allison Titus, from “Inclement” (via yesyes)
“[Richer by one more disappointment, life returned to its normal course.] My...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, from Tree of Codes (thanks, themirrorbluenight)
