July 2012
1,432 posts
“I’ve definitely said that you can do a lot of interesting things by breaking...”
– Neil Gaiman (via amandaonwriting)
“Learn to write by doing it. Read widely and wisely. Increase your word power....”
– P.D. James (via amandaonwriting)
m0ledro:
You know that moment when you’re reading a book and you just have to stop and bite your lip and squeal or sigh or close your eyes and wrinkle your nose and forehead and press the book against your heart and just like sit there and try to soak up the gorgeous literature via osmosis?
That’s my favorite part of reading.
seabois:
Sometimes life doesn’t let me to live my happily life, then I think about books and I’m better. Stories save me from a cage of full of pain.
“Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of...”
– Anaïs Nin, A Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal, Volume 3 (via seabois)
“On Sundays Kafka goes for walks by himself, without any objective, without...”
– from a note by Max Brod, early 1911 (via seabois)
“Be humble for you are made of earth.
Be noble for you are made of stars.”
– Serbian Proverb (via seabois)
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via seabois)
“We’re all golden sunflowers inside.”
– Allen Ginsberg (via seabois)
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (via seabois)
“What matters is what you do with the time you’re alive.”
– Carrie Ryan, The Dark and Hollow Places (via seabois)
“Let your mind be spacious and your heart be kind and soft.”
– Jack Kornfield (via seabois)
“Poetry is thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”
– Thomas Grey (via seabois)
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via seabois)
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via seabois)
“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Unknown (via seabois)
“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via seabois)
“Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce...”
– Komatsu, 1Q84 (via murakamistuff)
“I dug my hands in my pockets and stood by the window, gazing out. There things...”
– Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase (via murakamistuff)
“Listen, every object’s in flux. The earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith,...”
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (via murakamistuff)
“The most amazing thing of all has been you, Mr. Nakata. You changed my life....”
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (via murakamistuff)
“Why my wife owned a shotgun, I had no idea. Or ski masks. Neither of us had ever...”
– Haruki Murakami - The Second Bakery Attack (via murakamistuff)
“To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone...”
– Haruki Murakami (via murakamistuff)
“I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light,...”
– Murakami Haruki, A Wild Sheep Chase (via naked-glass)
“She laughed as she picked up the cat and let it down onto the floor. “Shall we?”...”
– Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase (via murakamistuff)
“You know, writing a big novel takes three or four years, and I don’t know how...”
– Haruki Murakami (via murakamistuff)
“I’ve always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me,...”
– Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via murakamistuff)
“Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.”
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (via amandaonwriting)
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle (via amandaonwriting)
“Good writers do not litter their sentences with adverbial garbage. They do not...”
– James J. Kilpatrick (via amandaonwriting)
“In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or...”
– Donald E. Westlake (via amandaonwriting)
“Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because...”
– Seth Godin (via amandaonwriting)
“I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via quotes-shape-us)
“Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes (via quotes-shape-us)
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.”
– Mark Twain (via quotes-shape-us)
“If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.”
– Margaret Thatcher (via quotes-shape-us)
“Writing is the geometry of the soul.”
– Plato (via quotes-shape-us)
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via emma5036)
“At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in...”
– The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (via graceforanarchy)
“One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was...”
– Gabourey Sidibe (via thatquote)
“You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.”
– Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun (via quotes-shape-us)
“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a...”
– Andrea A. Lunsford, The Everyday Writer (via quotes-shape-us) 