March 2011
170 posts
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods (via bookoasis)
February 2011
214 posts
“You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you...”
– J. K. Rowling | Vancouver 2000 writers’ festival (via writingadvice)
10 Signs of a Typical Writing Day →
the-write-idea:
By Elspeth Antonelli
10. The mug of coffee by your side seems to have cooled incredibly fast. You know you couldn’t have spent that much time reading emails and checking in on Facebook.
9. That idea that kept you up last night (and you were so sure you’d remember that you didn’t take notes) has vanished without a trace.
8. At the same moment that your fingers touch the...
epicjohngreenquotes:
“The venn diagram of boys who don’t like smart girls and boys you don’t wanna date is a circle.” - John Green
My favorite
epicjohngreenquotes:
“True love will triumph in the end, Which may or may not be true, but if it’s a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.” -John Green
“There is no ‘them’, there are only facets of ‘us’.”
– John Green (via epicjohngreenquotes)
6 Reasons You Will Never Be A Writer →
the-write-idea:
Wondering when you’ll reap the fame and fortune that come with your dream of being a writer? Well, probably never. If:
1. You don’t read
At least, not the right things. You read all the books on writing and polishing and publishing, and all the books that literary critics are praising, but nothing of any real value. You don’t read books that light a fire under you, you don’t...
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed...”
– Sir Francis Bacon (via ilovereadingandwriting)
Leave two Harry Potter characters in my ask and...
Do you like penguins? Do you want to see cute... →
Libyan government is refusing to turn over bodies...
weedboy-:
thisisinnamon:
This is epic bullshit, people.
Fuckers, your secret is now revealed to all the ppl of Tumblr.
The point of books is to have way too many but to...
“It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as...”
– Jo Walton, Among Others (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Please don't tell me I need to stop collecting...
teachingliteracy:
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