January 2012
139 posts
So You Want to Be a Writer? →
avajae.blogspot.com
An open letter to new and aspiring writers.
“The weird thing about books is that they really are a co-creation between reader and writer. I put the scratches on a page, but you bring them to narrative life by translating those scratches into a story that (hopefully) has meaning for you. So if it works, we’ve both given each other a gift, and we both have reason to be grateful to the other.”
—
WeAreThe Vlogbrothers, Hank and John Green, and we are in a van for the next 10 hours. AUAA. : IAmA
Especially now that we have the internet!
(via rachelfershleiser)
“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.”
—Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebookishdark)
“Love gets so sexualized in our world. We start to feel like there is no love outside of romantic love. There are lots of wonderful love stories that have nothing to do with sex or romance, and I guess I wanted to write one of those.”
—John Green (on writing Will Grayson, Will Grayson with David Levithan)
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
—Anton Chekhov (via wordpainting)
“In fact the pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”
—Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 24 January 1922 (via katherine-mansfield)
“Dissatisfied writers tend to create great novels.”
—TBV (via wordpainting)
25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore →
open.salon.com
Hilarious list by Open Salon for anyone who has ever thought about owning their own bookstore (eg. ALL of Bookshelf Porn’s readers).
Character Development: Fear →
avajae.blogspot.com
Do you take advantage of fear in your writing?
“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you’ll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
—Stephen King (via wordpainting)
“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
—Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head (via bookaddict24-7)
