May 2013
29 posts
John Green's tumblr: The Commencement Address →
fishingboatproceeds:
Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This…
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“Fear is essential in horror fiction. Gore is optional.—Rayne Hall”
“- “Sodomy non sapiens,” said Albert under his breath.
- “What does that mean?”...”
– — Mort and Albert are facing a problem (Terry Pratchett, Mort)
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably...”
– Stephen Fry (via existenti-al)
“Eventually, one comes to the realization that we are all products of a long line...”
“At a workshop not too many years ago a newer writer began to condemn a best...”
– Tobias Buckell on “The fate of today’s book bloggers”
The C.C. Finlay quote: “A novel doesn’t excite readers because you took all the bad stuff out of it, it excites them because of all the good stuff that’s in it, regardless of the bad.”
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: Creative Writing Tips & Kurt Vonnegut →
unmannedpress:
Kurt Vonnegut liked list making, so here is another list from him, originally published in the preface of Bagombo Snuff Box. And just so you know, # 8 made Flavorwire’s list of Bad Writing Advice From Famous Authors. What do you think?
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way…
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“Half the job of a working writer is to seek and maintain his own affinities....”
– In considering writers in love with other art forms, Andrew O’Hagan adds to our ongoing archive of wisdom on the written word by pointing out that great writing, like great science, is a craft of cross-disciplinary, combinatorial creativity. (via explore-blog)
“…some girl who can’t tell the difference between a wolf and her grandmother must...”
– The Wee Free Men (via squirrels-various-curiosities)
April 2013
82 posts
Another Commonplace Book: “As kingfishers catch... →
kat-howard:
“As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our...”
– Anne Rice (via amandaonwriting)
“All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water.
And...”
– Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via sacraments)
“You never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via wordsthat-speak)
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
– Margaret Atwood (via amandaonwriting)
“She’s the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their...”
– C.S. Lewis (via amandaonwriting) 