"What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant." David Foster Wallace
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from The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
“But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that … Continue reading from The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
Kurt Vonnegut, Quote of the Day
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist. ” Kurt Vonnegut, … Continue reading Kurt Vonnegut, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Matthew Weiner’s Advice to Struggling Artists
"While being battered always hurts, an important survival mechanism I’ve acquired over the years is to both thrive on rejection and hold on to compliments. Rejection enrages me, but that 'I’ll show you!' feeling is an extremely powerful motivator. I’m at a point now where I’m afraid that if I lose it I’ll stop working. … Continue reading Matthew Weiner’s Advice to Struggling Artists
Quote of the Day
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." David Foster Wallace
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
Writing Quote of the Day
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon." - EL Doctorow
QOTD
Happy Monday, isn't this quote nice? "Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." -Agnes de … Continue reading QOTD
QOTD
"You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have … Continue reading QOTD
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