You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep … Continue reading QOTD
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On the internet vs. writing. Well I am a novelist, unlike most of my fellow writers at the office, so I probably have less reason than most to be online. I do use google or wikipedia for quick research questions, but generally I try to stay offline while I am working. Its too distracting. I … Continue reading Member Chatter
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Loving me with my shows off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked. Intricate nubs, my toes. No longer bound. And what's more, see toenails and all ten stages, root by root. All spirited and wild, this little piggy … Continue reading QOTD- Valentine edition
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I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. David Lynch
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Behn Zeitlin, writer/director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, on working and living in Louisiana. Me and Louisiana are involved in a epic romance that has spiraled completely out of control. I was supposed to get home in October 2006 and that obviously hasn’t happened. It was like I showed up to have a brief … Continue reading QOTD
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy. John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg
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Mike White on his brilliant HBO series Enlightened It's funny, when we turned in the pilot, Mike Lombardo, the head of HBO, said, "It's not really a comedy, is it?" And I was like, "Well, it's definitely more dramatic than your comedies." And he said, "It's more dramatic than our dramas." Sometimes when you write … Continue reading QOTD
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Sharks' Teeth Everything contains some silence. Noise gets its zest from the small shark's-tooth- shaped fragments of rest angled in it. An hour of city holds maybe a minute of these remnants of a time when silence reigned, compact and dangerous as a shark. Sometimes a bit of a tail or fin can still be … Continue reading QOTD
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When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them. Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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