December 2011
3 posts
2 tags
“Don’t write when it moves you—that’s a loser. Try to make it...”
– Jennifer Egan
November 2011
2 posts
3 tags
“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told...”
– Ira Glass
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
6 posts
“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the...”
– Charles Bukowski (via roscoe-)
5 tags
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
“Most people won’t realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your...”
– Katherine Anne Porter
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
3 posts
3 tags
“To this day, if I am dissatisfied with my work or frustrated by it, the question...”
– Tea Obreht
May 2011
12 posts
3 tags
as long as it's not just me.
Me: You do hate everything you write for the novel, right?
R: Yup. Except for a line here and there.
Me: Good.
3 tags
“In general, though, there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird (aka a lovely way to start summer reading)
April 2011
11 posts
“I have advice for people who want to write. I don’t care whether they’re 5 or...”
– Madeleine L’Engle
(via thesearepeopleyouknow)
That’s interesting, I actually have such a journal.
(via wordpainting)
“It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the...”
– Emmet Fox
3 tags
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Gustave Flaubert
1 tag
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on...”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
March 2011
25 posts
What I still miss about Kansas
Texas (Austin area) just doesn’t get thunderstorms like we do in Kansas. My sister’s ex-boyfriend’s status update this morning said something about mean, low, rolling thunder. So I texted my mom: “Am I missing spring storms?” She said, “Yes indeed, hail and thunder.”
Is it natural to miss whatever climate you grew up in? Do displaced Alaskans miss snow?...
“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
