In case I forget; it does exist.

[quotemadness]

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

Ernest Hemingway (via quotemadness)

[thetinhouse-deactivated20180604]

I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend you’re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, you’ll never dumb things down. You won’t have to explain things that don’t need explaining. You’ll assume an intimacy and a natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and don’t wish to be condescended to. I think about the reader. I care about the reader. Not ‘audience.’ Not 'readership.’ Just the reader.

Jefferey Eugenides (via thetinhouse)

[bookmania]

‘Always remember, child,’ her first teacher had impressed on her, 'that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that need discipline – training – is about. So train your mind to dwell on sweet perfumes, the touch of this silk, tender raindrops against the shoji, the curve of the flower arrangement, the tranquillity of dawn. Then, at length, you won’t have to make such a great effort and you will be of value to yourself.’

James Clavell, Shōgun (via bookmania)

[aseaofquotes]

Don DeLillo, Underworld

[nicethingsinuglyhandwriting]

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation // Yann Martel

[nicethingsinuglyhandwriting]

Create dangerously for people who read dangerously, writing knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them // Edwidge Danticat.

[thetinhouse-deactivated20180604]

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[inspiring-pictures]

[observando]

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Annie Proulx (via observando)

[wordsnquotes]

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby  (via tuffgnarled)

[aseaofquotes]

Isaac Asimov, “Lest We Remember”

[observando]

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.

Flannery O’Connor (via observando)

[aseaofquotes]

 Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

[litpursuits-blog]

I’m going to try to write for you.

It’s something I’ve never done before.

But I’m going to try.

[wordsnquotes]

Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind.

Toni Morrison, Jazz  (via 5ft1)

[fitzgeraldquotes]

We’ll survive, you and I.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, More Than Just A House (via fitzgeraldquotes)

[coral]

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (via feellng)