July 2012
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The Most Brilliant Fairy Tale Novel We've Read in... →
This book looks incredible. I’ve never read Graham Joyce before, and his whole backlist looks fantastic. How did I miss him?
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Flavorwire » 9 of the Coolest Secret Subway... →
These are wild! I had no idea Cincinnati almost had a subway. And the City Hall station is GORGEOUS.
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Soon most if not all libraries will be facing quandaries similar to that of the...
– David A. Bell: The Bookless Library | The New Republic (via infoneer-pulse)
The community to be found in a library is something worth preserving.
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner...
– This is very much true of me.
~Truman Capote, McCall’s, November 1967 (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say...
– No matter what you may have thought of the show, Fred Rogers was an outstanding human being, and a smart one.
—Fred Rogers (via dearworld)
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This is an excellent question! Somehow I can sort of see Queen Victoria reading Jane Eyre and thinking, “Man, I hope those crazy kids get back together!”
spicyshimmy:
how is it possible to love fictional characters this much and also have people always been this way?
like, did queen elizabeth lie in bed late sometimes thinking ‘VERILY I CANNOT EVEN FOR MERCUTIO HATH SLAIN ME WITH...
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If I start giving people what they like I’ll turn into one of them and I don’t...
– Craig Ferguson
(via thesearepeopleyouknow)
And yet another reason I adore Craig Ferguson.
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Kurt Vonnegut’s Rules for the Short Story
1. Use the time of a total stranger...
– Most of this applies to novels, too, and is excellent writing advice in general.
via advicetowriters.com (via kadrey)
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A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people.
– Andrew Carnegie (via dtxmcclain)
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This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...
– This is so important to remember. Writing has a rhythm, and each story usually demands its own. You have to listen for it, and pay attention to it, to make the words really sing.
Gary Provost (via qmsd)