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Dining room with books

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Dining room with books

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Hallstatt, Austria

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Hallstatt, Austria

lamescapes: Norway Fjords

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lamescapes:

Norway Fjords

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yogibe: Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings…

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yogibe:

Ganesha, Remover of Obstacles, Lord of Beginnings…

isawtoday: A conversation with Ambra Medda about art and...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:41:52 -0400

isawtoday:

A conversation with Ambra Medda about art and inspiration | Miss At La Playa

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snowce: Grace Kelly

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snowce:

Grace Kelly

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teachingliteracy: amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 12...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:21:26 -0400

teachingliteracy:

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 12 March

Happy Birthday, Dave Eggers, born 12 March 1970

12 Quotes

People are strange, but more than that, they’re good. They’re good first, then strange.

Also, I need deadlines, just like everybody else, especially coming from magazines, newspapers, and stuff like that. I need daily or weekly deadlines to get stuff done, or I continue to do things and not go off on a year of unproductivity.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn’t have noticed otherwise.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’.

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

I publish my own books, so there isn’t a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It’s almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is known for the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for his more recent work as a novelist and screenwriter.

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by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

"Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you..."

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““Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people’s response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.””

- Henri J. M. Nouwen (via creatingaquietmind)

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"‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is."

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““‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.””

- John le Carré (via theparisreview)

theparisreview: What would the world be withoutpoetry, he...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:18:46 -0400

theparisreview:

What would the world be without
poetry, he asked, and I listened.

—Robert Devlin, from “Maenad”
Photography Credit Barbara Bloom