Crossed & Tangled Lines

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10:10 PM . 19 January 2013

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Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

- Kurt Vonnegut’s advice on writing (via explore-blog)

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4 months ago VIA explore-blog ( ORIGINALLY FROM explore-blog )

#Kurt Vonnegut #writing #thought and opinion

06:27 PM . 11 January 2013

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A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe’s will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.

- H. P. Lovecraft’s advice to aspiring writers, 1920 (via explore-blog)

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4 months ago VIA explore-blog ( ORIGINALLY FROM explore-blog )

#Lovecraft #advice #writing #history and literature #lit #culture and society #thought and opinion

09:06 AM . 18 October 2012

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06:25 PM . 12 September 2012

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That’s what a novelist is: someone who does the same thing every day while things decay around them. In their pyjamas.

- Zadie Smith, adding to our running archive of wisdom on writing. (via explore-blog)

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8 months ago VIA explore-blog ( ORIGINALLY FROM explore-blog )

#writing #Zadie Smith #quote #ty

10:14 PM . 31 January 2012

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1 year ago VIA aucuparia-deactivated20120903 ( ORIGINALLY FROM imgfave )

#reference #writing

08:22 PM . 29 January 2012

#I'm not there #bob dylan #cate blanchett #stories #writing #my stuff #gifs

10:02 PM . 28 January 2012

#I'm not there #typewriter #writing #gifs #my stuff

03:38 PM . 26 December 2011

write-me-a-novel:

Having some right now! :) Happy writing time!

My mum gets so angry with me because I wake everyone up, boiling the kettle in the small hours of morning.

(Source: moonandtrees)

1 year ago VIA write-me-a-novel ( ORIGINALLY FROM moonandtrees )

#tea #writing #hot tea #yum

03:23 PM . 26 December 2011

#writing #language #music #structure

09:15 PM . 13 December 2011

by Azagorah

1 year ago VIA bookoasis-deactivated20120227 ( ORIGINALLY FROM bookoasis-deactivated20120227 )

#typewriter #writing