May 2013
9 posts
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April 2013
3 posts
March 2013
16 posts
“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want...”
– Joan Didion (via)
“We’re sensorially deprived right now in modern life. Our eyes are engaged —...”
– Writes Michael Pollan in “The End of the World as We Know It” in Issue 6 of Lucky Peach. Cooking, gardening, yes, good for body and brain. Getting your hands on raw earth and dirt, flesh of squash and flesh of pig or lamb. I don’t have a garden, but I get a calmer, better feeling after I water the...
February 2013
1 post
January 2013
18 posts
“Roxane Gay: Do you find it difficult to write about women or people of color? I...”
– bookforum talks to laird hunt - bookforum.com / interviews (via roxanegay)
“The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know...”
– Kurt Vonnegut on how to write with style, 1985 (via explore-blog)
“A writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then,...”
– George Saunders, who says the role of fiction is to “transfer energy from writer to reader” (via austinkleon)
December 2012
16 posts
