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June 30, 2012

June 30th, 2012 12:34am

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

— Oscar Wilde (via villa-rosie), (via chambres)
June 26, 2012

June 26th, 2012 11:14pm

Sometimes. Mostly, no. It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.

— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (via whisperthroughtherain)
June 25, 2012

June 25th, 2012 10:21pm
June 25, 2012

June 25th, 2012 2:44pm

writersandkitties:

Dinner time for Hemingway and kitty. The kitty inherited everything.
June 24, 2012

June 24th, 2012 11:57am

Famous Writers’ Retreats: The Rooms Where Classics Were Created
June 19, 2012

June 19th, 2012 5:50pm

Actual insight into the process of writing, offered up by the people who did it best.
June 18, 2012

June 18th, 2012 10:28pm

I cupped both hands over my mouth and, like Tarzan in the jungle, yelled from one sidewalk to the other: ”Maaaeeestro!” Ernest Hemingway understood that there could be no other master amid the multitude of students, and he turned, raised his hand and shouted to me in Castillian in a very childish voice, ”Adiooos, amigo!” It was the only time I saw him… [it left] me with the impression that something had happened in my life, and had happened for all time.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 30 years ago, on seeing Ernest Hemingway 32 years earlier in Paris. Full story at Wired. (via doubledaybooks)
June 6, 2012

June 6th, 2012 9:52am

shortformblog:

R.I.P. Ray Bradbury: The “Fahrenheit 451” author, who wrote numerous other literary classics in his day, died Wednesday at 91. ”If I had to make any statement, it would be how much I love and miss him, and I look forward to hearing everyone’s memories about him,” Danny Karapetian, Bradbury’s grandson, said to io9. Sad news. (edit: Karapetian is his grandson; apologies, fixed)
May 31, 2012

May 31st, 2012 4:10pm

You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

— Ray Bradbury (via doubledaybooks)
May 22, 2012

May 22nd, 2012 9:57pm