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harpaea: do you ever think about how weird reading is our eyes are able to scan these different...

kawaiisupremacy — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:59:52 -0400

harpaea:

do you ever think about how weird reading is

our eyes are able to scan these different symbols and construct the scenarios and concepts they describe in our mind

and these concepts have the power to twist our emotions and make us cry and laugh and wow reading is weird

theatlantic: 10 Pieces of Advice for Young Writers Care about things. Show it. Be funny, barbed,...

kawaiisupremacy — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:54:40 -0400

theatlantic:

10 Pieces of Advice for Young Writers

Care about things. Show it. Be funny, barbed, and pointed when needed. Slick is easy; don’t be slick.

Confidence and arrogance will both protect you when people yell at you. One is vital and one is poisonous.

Learn to be your own devil’s advocate. Interrogate your own arguments. Interrogate your point of view.

Successful writers can play loud and soft and can make a variety of harsh and gentle sounds, just like great musicians.

Look at the people whose careers you admire and think about their paths. Don’t assume you want the fast lane.

If you are read widely, you will get blowback, no matter what. Don’t let it paralyze you, but don’t reflexively blow it off.

If you try to make your fortune creating controversy, then even if it works, you’ll be expected to keep doing it.

Being young doesn’t make you dumb or smart, important or irrelevant. But you’ll be a different writer in 20 years.

“Win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press’ll think you’re colorful.” Obey deadlines and house style.

You are entitled to be wrong, to feel embarrassed, to feel like a jerk, and to keep writing anyway.

[as told by NPR’s Linda Holmes]

"Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own..."

kawaiisupremacy — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:08:56 -0400

“Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking about what your minor characters’ stories are, even though they may intersect only slightly with your protagonist’s.”

- Sarah Waters (via jaimecallahan)

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would..."

kawaiisupremacy — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:40:40 -0400

“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)

#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley (via snappily)

And the next time someone starts claiming that teenage girls have ruined the horror genre with romance or whatever you can be like, hey dicksmack, teenage girls and romance built your genre so sit the fuck down.

(via sharpestrose)

compulsive auto reblog

i want this tattooed on me at some point

(via nova-bright)

"Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger."

kawaiisupremacy — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:50:49 -0400

“Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”

- Pico Iyer (via writingquotes)

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kawaiisupremacy — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:10:33 -0400

"I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me you’d better go."

kawaiisupremacy — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 18:41:54 -0400

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me you’d better go.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, from The Beautiful and Damned(via ireadabook)

"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several..."

kawaiisupremacy — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:57:22 -0400

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

- Gary Provost (via qmsd)

This might be my favourite quote on writing ever.

(via bdoing)

"If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to..."

kawaiisupremacy — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:33:00 -0400

“If I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame.”

- John Berryman (via writingquotes)

"And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive...."

kawaiisupremacy — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:19:53 -0400

“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

- Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via yousoundlikestatic)

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?"

kawaiisupremacy — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:59:38 -0400

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”

- Ernest Hemingway (via girlwithoutwings)

"…there’s a certain set of magical things fiction can do for us. There’s maybe thirteen things, or..."

kawaiisupremacy — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 22:10:02 -0400

“…there’s a certain set of magical things fiction can do for us. There’s maybe thirteen things, or which who even knows which ones we can talk about. But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell ‘Another sensibility like mine exists.’ Something else feels this way to someone else. So that the reader feels less lonely.”

- David Foster Wallace (via strandedstmarkscitylights)

"I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to..."

kawaiisupremacy — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:44:43 -0400

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via hamandheroin)

"Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person."

kawaiisupremacy — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 23:46:53 -0400

“Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one person.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via damninsomniac)

#writing is a socially accepted form of schizophrenia

(via giantsquidofawesome)

"I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights."

kawaiisupremacy — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:40:37 -0400

“I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.”

- Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (via serialstranger)

"There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when..."

kawaiisupremacy — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:56:39 -0400

“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (via anditslove)

"When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."

kawaiisupremacy — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:47:01 -0400

“When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via sirmitchell)

"A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his..."

kawaiisupremacy — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:47:56 -0400

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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. I feel no obligation to deal with politics. I do feel a responsibility to society because of going into print: a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

”

- E. B. White (via karenoke)