February 2012
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20 Brillant Bookcases →
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“‘Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in...”
– John Green
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“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
– John Green
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“I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion,...”
– Jane Austen
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“Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more...”
– Ron Paul
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“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria,...”
– Tennessee Williams
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YA author L.J. Smith (Vampire Diaries) fired from... →
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The Top 10 Fantasy Love Stories -- The Huffington... →
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Whenever I’m having severe writer’s block, I read this and appreciate how incredible storytelling is: http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310
“But Ebert doesn’t press the button that fires up the speakers. He presses a different button, a button that makes the words bigger. He presses the button again and again and again, the words growing bigger and bigger and...
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Who wants to recommend my next read? I'll return...
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“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute...”
– Roald Dahl
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Elie Wiesel’s “Night” is now available for NOOK.
It’s the perfect example of how powerful writing can be when simplicity is its main trait.
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“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can...”
– Roald Dahl
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“We are caught up in the monotony of life.”
– Uma Krishnan
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“There is a comfort in the strength of love;
‘Twill make a thing endurable,...”
– William Wordsworth
January 2012
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What I want to do: read “The Fault in our Stars” by John Green.
What I don’t have time to do: read “The Fault in our Stars” by John Green.
viciousminuteshour asked: I saw that Atlas Shrugged was your favourite novel. I have a recording of my reading a portion of it on my tumblr (I'm actually making a recording for a friend of the entire book) Stop on by and give a listen if you feel like.
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“You transfix me quite.”
– Charlotte Bronte
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“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to...”
– Charlotte Bronte
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“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick...”
– J. D. Salinger
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“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if...”
– John Green
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Atlas Shrugs at Stieg Larsson
As I read “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” by Stieg Larsson, I get bored. His descriptions are at times monotonous and unnecessary. When I was reading it last night, my eyes glazed over the page, and I realized something: Is this what people feel like when they read “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand?
For those of you who don’t know, “Atlas...
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“Blood, whips and guns—or dollars. Take your choice. There is no other.”
– Ayn Rand
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This is the first January in about seven years where I haven’t read “Atlas Shrugged.” #breakingtradition #donothavetime
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Honestly, I just want to be reading “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green, but I need to know what happens in the millennium series first.
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“People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because...”
– Margaret Atwood
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“Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself...”
– Margaret Atwood
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“Writing is a way to shape out visible and invisible, in myself as well as in the...”
– Eppu Nuotio
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“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco...”
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As I previously mentioned, I’m currently reading “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” and it’s much better than the first book thus far.
I just finished Page 56, and I really like this line and the story that goes along with it: “On the other hand, she was inconsolable to have been left a widow.”
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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That moment when writing takes you by surprise.
Re: The Girl Who Played with Fire.
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“You can just shame them with facts.”
– Zach Carter
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“We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be...”
– Nikki Giovanni
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“If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll...”
– Nikki Giovanni
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Welcome by Stephen Dunn
If you believe nothing is always what’s left after a while, as I did, If you believe you have this collection of ungiven gifts, as I do (right here behind the silence and the averted eyes) If you believe an afternoon can collapse into strange privacies- how in your backyard, for example, the shyness of flowers can be suddenly overwhelming, and in the distance...
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“What is eloquent is the passing moment and the moment that will come after it.”
– Maurice Blanchot
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn...”
– Katherine Paterson
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I typically defend books against their film versions, but I couldn’t get through “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” until after I saw the movie.
I liked the book, but I don’t know the series is worth reading. Thoughts?
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Two books in the past twelve hours. Not bad, eh?
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“Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of...”
– Stanley Schmidt
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“There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when...”
– Will Shetterly
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything....”
– Buddha
December 2011
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“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
– Stephen King
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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
– Stephen King
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“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has...”
– Ayn Rand