Kristin Williamson

I'm a classic type A, who's living and loving tech PR, public affairs, and politics. Mom to a super dude. Giggler. Altoids enthusiast. I don't actually blog here, but I do on occasion deposit mindless fodder that makes me smile.

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“When I started getting real work done, I realized how much easier it is to write than not to write.”

Fran Lebowitz (via theparisreview)

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“As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.”

Anne Sexton (via theparisreview)

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Thank you to Ken Buel & @ChampaignRotary for working undercover to name me as a Paul Harris Fellow today. I'm so proud to serve with such kind and thoughtful people.

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All dreams are possible when you look at them through the eyes of a 9 year-old. (Or when see them written in chalk!) Go #dream big today!

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Love you, @katespadeny (at Kate Spade New York Outlet)

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Summer in the country. #home #family

[theatlantic]

Remember That Time the New York Times Published to Facebook?

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Hacking your way to distribution, 2013 style

[theparisreview]

“James Joyce is a good model for punctuation. He keeps it to an absolute minimum. There’s no reason to blot the page up with weird little marks. I mean, if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.”

Cormac McCarthy’s three punctuation rules.

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I only pop a bottle of Italian Barbera on very special occasions, and the arrival of @vogue's #Septemberissue is one of them. 902 pages of fall #fashion bliss.

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The Sweetest Video You Will Watch This Week: Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers on Popping the Question

[theparisreview]

“What people who don’t write don’t understand is that they think you make up the line consciously—but you don’t. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it’s the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don’t think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I’ve said. And I laugh at it, because I’m hearing it for the first time myself.”

—Woody Allen, from Esquire’s series of notables’ insights and life lessons.

[theatlantic]

The Loveliest Short Story You Will Read Today Was Published on Craigslist

[Image: Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Chris Heller]

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His want for this girl made me forgive his need for an editor.

[theparisreview]

“The writer, you see, is not simply a journalist. He interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.”

Naguib Mahfouz (via theparisreview)

[quoteskine]

GPOYW - The Neil Gaiman Edition (#002)

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To whoever put the bouquet of colored markers on my desk, you had me at hello. #toocute #creativepeoplethings

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Do I have to let him win? #love #okayyouwin #doingitwrong (at Art Effect)

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No. Wait. #lolla #chicago