February 2012
January 2012
“‘Why write novels at all?’” To this, there is one answer, the words of Jane...”
– Robert McCrum: “As long as words are cool, the novel will flourish” (via thelibrarianontherun)
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via desiderioardente)
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in...”
– Ezra Pound (via thelibrarianontherun)
“A novel is not an allegory…. It is the sensual experience of another world. If...”
– Azar Nafisi (via thebookishdark)
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watts (via neil-gaiman)
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin (via rulesformyunbornson)
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
– Sylvia Plath (via creatingaquietmind)
“In reality, the fact of being is what is most private; existence is the sole...”
– Emmanuel Levinas. “The Solitide of Being” in Ethics and Infinity (via creatingaquietmind)
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via madaeli26)
