June 2013
39 posts
“Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.”
—Paul Auster
“It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.”
—Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
“How much of life gets spoilt by ideas of what’s normal that aren’t normal.”
—Alain de Botton
“The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.”
—Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet
“We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul laboring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.”
—John Green
Yes to this, and everything else he says in this video.
Just because a book isn’t a bestseller, doesn’t mean it wasn’t loved and cared for and slaved over by a whole bunch of people. (We can introduce you to some of them over here.)
You can’t get that by plugging in your Word doc to an online self-publishing program…
“I’m almost fifty years old and I’ve never understood anything in my whole life.”
—Richard Yates, The Easter Parade
“Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.”
—Alain de Botton
May 2013
63 posts
“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.”
—Siri Hustvedt, The Summer Without Men
“There’s more to life than books, you know. But not much more.”
—Morrissey
