October 2011
How to Prepare for National Novel Writing Month... →
5 Tips for NaNoWriMo Success | Self Publishing... →
Tips for Keeping Your Sanity During NaNoWriMo « In... →
“It took my friend Douglas Adams to encourage me to go further and he did this by...”
– Emerging into the Light « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry
Neil Gaiman: 8 Good Writing Practices
Neil Gaiman has become so popular he is often considered the “rock star” of the literary world. He trades mostly in science fiction and fantasy in a variety of forms—novels, children’s books, graphic novels, comic books, and film. Among his trend-setting works: Coraline, The Graveyard Book and The Sandman series. He takes readers, of all ages, to the very edge of imagination.
8 Good Writing...
WRITERS ON WRITING; O.K., You're Not Shakespeare.... →
“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see...”
– Yohji Yamamoto (via berrynice)
Leap Before You Look « Cats and Chocolate →
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual,...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafon (The Shadow of the Wind)
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing...”
– Dorothea Lange
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born...”
– Sylvia Plath, “Mad Girl’s Love Song”
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the...”
– Florence Scovel Shinn
“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a...”
– Beth Pattillo, Jane Austen Ruined My Life (via bookoasis)
A guy at the bus stop asked me what I was reading....
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“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in...”
– Eden Ahbez.
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman (via danseurs)
“I want to speak to you about the treasures hidden in books; and about the way we...”
– John Ruskin (via consistentcontradiction)
“Even though many people seem to be not interested in art or in things like...”
– Viggo Mortensen (via imfantasyparade)
“Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.”
– Amy Lowell (via imfantasyparade)
