February 2013
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“On a bad day you also don’t need a lot of advice. You just need a little...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
April 2012
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March 2012
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“In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins,...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
January 2012
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“With the divorce rate up to sixty per cent, how can anyone attend a wedding with...”
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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“I never intended to rescue you. We’re our own dragons as well as our own...”
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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“That is why virtually every revolution in history has failed: the oppressed, as...”
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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“Who does have a love life anymore? These days people have sex lives, not love...”
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,...”
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
November 2011
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“Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and...”
– Philip Pullman’s The Amber Spyglass (via rileyanne)
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“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know...”
– Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (via paintmysilence)
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“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a...”
– Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing (via bookoasis)
October 2011
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Edgar Allen Poe Short Stories, Tales, and Poems →
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget...”
– Neil Gaiman (via ree-writes)
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“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it,...”
– Catherine, Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
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“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love...”
– Catherine, Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
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“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on? When in your...”
– JRR Tolkien. (via maddyluna)
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“The codes of duty and honor were not exclusively masculine. Many young women who...”
– James M. McPherson and James K. Hogue, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction
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“He wanted to cry quietly, but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917. (via maddyluna)
Reblog if you’ve ever felt this way. Joyce understands my life.
September 2011
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via serialstranger)
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More Literary Magazines (Page Two)
underparasols:
The Main Street Rag
Not for the faint of heart. Our literary magazine features some of the best writers in the small press alongside up and coming voices.
[Read more about Main Street Rag]
MAKE
Chicago is a storyteller’s city, and MAKE is the story’s magazine. Chock full of fiction, poetry, essays, art, and reviews, MAKE is substantial in both feel and scope. ...
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More Literary Magazines (Page One)
underparasols:
Basalt
Basalt publishes poetry, short fiction, translations, work that crosses genres, and fine art. We are open to all schools and persuasions, but prefer serious content.
[Read more about Basalt]
Hotel Amerika
An exciting venue for both well-known and emerging writers. We strive to house in our pages the most unique and provocative poetry, fiction and nonfiction...
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“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played cultural...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via bookoasis)
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“Had she been less beautiful, — if Envy’s self could have found aught else to...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Birthmark
August 2011
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“He wanted to cry quietly, but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and...”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917 (via wonderfulambiguity)
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“Usually during the composition, step by step, word by word and adjective by...”
– Allen Ginsberg, The Paris Review
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“This is so complicated a matter. The beginning of the fear with me was, you...”
– Allen Ginsberg, The Paris Review
Discussing censorship.
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The Book Xperience: Writers' habits series →
thebookexperience:
Philip Pullman
“I’ll get up at about half past seven and take my wife a cup of tea, and have my breakfast at the kitchen table reading the paper. I’ll sit down at my desk at about half past nine and work until it’s time for lunch, with a break for coffee half way through. If I’m lucky I’ll have…
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“Gone, I say and walk from church,
refusing the stiff procession to the grave,...”
– The Truth the Dead Know by Anne Sexton (via welcometothemonkeyhouse)
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“Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall...”
– George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“When the blaze was all acrackle, he peeled off his stiff gloves to warm his...”
– George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“When we were little, Jaime and I were so much alike that even our lord father...”
– George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“Foolish woman, will holding it a secret in your heart make if any less true? If...”
– George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“Sansa, permit me to share a bit of womanly wisdom with you on this very special...”
– George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (via aphesis)
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“‘Knights die in battle,’ Catelyn reminded her.
Brienne looked at...”
– George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with...”
– William Butler Yeats, from Per amica silentia lunae. (via bookoasis)
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I Remember →
rabbit-light:
By the first of August the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color–no more than the sand was a color and we had worn our bare feet bare since the twentieth of June and there were times we forgot to wind up your alarm clock and some nights we took our gin warm and neat from old jelly...
July 2011
13 posts
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“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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“My companion flushed up with pleasure at my words, and the earnest way in which...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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“I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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“I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien. (via owlssayhooot)
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“There is always something ridiculous about the emotion of people whom one has...”
– Oscar Wilde, the New Shelton wet/dry (via nevver)
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“‘Only a novel’… in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the...”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via bookoasis)
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“It’s unwise to seek to force the world into the shape of your desires....”
– Jacqueline Carey, Naamah’s Kiss 