"Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper." Ray Bradbury
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We’ve got ourselves a winner!
Keep the drama in the drama. If it's all used up in your life, there's nothing left for the page. #bestlessonlearned You guys tweeted some really great lessons in our Back To School Contest. We chose the one above from @jamierosehere because it's a wonderful reminder, especially for us writers, actors, artists. Expanding on this idea, … Continue reading We’ve got ourselves a winner!
George Saunders on Fiction
"Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, … Continue reading George Saunders on Fiction
Quote of the Day
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we … Continue reading Quote of the Day
A Moment with Jack Kerouac…
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. Jack Kerouac
Writing Quote of the Day
"The first draft is just you telling yourself the story." Terry Pratchett
Writing Quote of the Day
"I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking. It helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. It would … Continue reading Writing Quote of the Day
Writing Quote of the Day
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, … Continue reading Writing Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
"But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they are going. Sometimes I even go to Fun parks and ride in the jet cars … Continue reading Quote of the Day
John Patrick Shanley
This playwright's tweets are little bits of daily inspiration: "You saw something when you were a child, and then it got away. Oh, how that wistful chase continues to this very day." -JPS
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