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  • October 21st, 2012 10:43pm

    Time is not a river, as Einstein theorized – it’s a big fucking buffalo herd that runs us down and eventually mashes us into the ground, dead and bleeding, with a hearing-aid plugged into one ear and a colostomy bag instead of a .44 clapped on one leg.

    — Stephen King. “Danse Macabre”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • October 21st, 2012 10:15pm

    In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it ‘got boring’, the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.

    — Stephen King. “On Writing”. (via fuckyeah-unclesteve)

  • October 15th, 2012 12:04am

    taterpie:

    linaerys:

    I love these guys.

    I can’t even understand how an author wouldn’t understand the urge to write fanfic, create fanart. How do you even want to be an author without seeing characters and stories you like and wanting to create your own? Fanfiction is just a matter of degree.

    Have you never imagined yourself into a favorite world? Have you never imagined yourself meeting a favorite character? If you have, you’ve committed fanfiction in your head. Didn’t you used to play pretend? What is the difference between thinking it and telling it to a friend? Between telling it to a friend and writing it down?

    If you’re an author and you are against fanfiction, you are lying to yourself about why you even started writing fiction in the first place. None of us did this alone, all of us stand on the shoulders of giants. And sometimes we write fic about those giants.

    I love Henry Jenkins’ take. 

  • October 12th, 2012 11:10am

    In the matter of glass, generally, we proceed upon false principles. Its leading feature is glitter – and in that one word how much of all that is detestable do we express! Flickering, unquiet lights are sometimes pleasing – to children and idiots always so – but in the embellishment of a room they should be scrupulously avoided.

    — Edgar Allan Poe (from The Philosophy of Furniture)

  • October 11th, 2012 7:38pm

    My religion defines who I am…with regard to abortion, I accept my church’s view on abortion that life begins at conception but I refuse to impose my beliefs on others. I don’t believe we have a right to tell women to control their body, that’s between them and their doctor.

    — Joe Biden   (via albinwonderland)