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  • February 26th, 2013 1:30pm

    Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

    — Neil deGrasse Tyson (via zen-pisces)

  • February 22nd, 2013 11:24pm

    Zack was the perfect man to take this on; he is unbelievably skilled at creating a coherent, cohesive world. Whether it’s a very stylized world, like 300, or something that’s more challenging, more varied, like he did with WATCHMEN. In my honest appraisal, taking on Superman and creating that world is far more difficult than creating the world of the Dark Knight. He has a lot of finishing to do on the movie — it has a very long post-production schedule because, unlike Batman, Superman flies. I actually feel guilty talking about it because I’m sitting here having nothing to do to it. I try to be as supportive as I can, and I’m just amazed by what he is doing. It’s not something I would know how to do.

    —

    Christopher Nolan on Man of Steel director Zack Snyder (via fyeahsupermanandloislane)

    #this makes me happy #nolan’s uninvolvement 

    (via ruthgilmartin)

  • February 21st, 2013 11:26pm

    There is a myth loose on the land that trying to teach or learn how to write a story is some kind of fraud, like selling shares in the Brooklyn Bridge.

    I come to testify that this is false. You can do both. You most certainly can learn how to write fiction and you can teach it, too. The result will most likely be neither fame nor fortune, but rather the best kind of education there is.

    My experience conforms to the sow’s ear maxim. Intelligence is the essence of a good writer. If you don’t have that in some degree there is s slim chance of developing expertise at the short story or novel.

    — Janet Burroway – Writing Fiction; A guide to narrative craft

  • February 21st, 2013 5:39pm

    No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.

    — Erin Bow (via writersrelief)

  • February 9th, 2013 9:33am

    At 23 years old, I had already been married, divorced and was living on my own as a single parent with two little boys. I put myself through cosmetology school at night while working as a waitress during the day. It was the hardest time of my life but I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It made me a motivated, hard working, independent person. When I was 26, I met a 23 year old named Wil at a New Year’s Eve party a mutual friend of ours was having. We started dating, eventually got married and spent several years working our asses off to keep our family above water while my ex-husband tried his hardest to pull us all under. It is unfortunate that he spent the boys’ childhood doing that but Wil and I raised two fantastic young men out of that situation.

    —

    Six Questions: Anne Wheaton

    My wife is amazing.

    (via wilwheaton)

  • February 5th, 2013 12:38pm

    “Lena asked me to leave,” Xiu told him. “Maybe I pushed her too hard.” But I know where she lives now! I could go there. I could make her see how much I’ve changed. And maybe that would just prove that he had changed in all the ways that didn’t matter. So Robert didn’t drive out to Rainbow’s End; he didn’t snoop the public cams there. But he continued to write her. And when he was outside, he often imagined that besides that 7-by-24 attention of the security authorities, perhaps there was another watcher, one who would someday forgive him.

    — Rainbow’s End by Vernor Vinge.

  • January 31st, 2013 11:48pm

    Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on.

    — Philip K. Dick – A Scanner Darkly (via bieberssi)