Life Stories
“Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.” ― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
Quotation
Novelist Lev Grossman on Narrative
Lev Grossman: My depression helped inspire the Magicians trilogy – Salon.com. I think literary critics — of whom you’re one and I’m another — are much better at describing beauty on the sentence level than we are at talking about the grace of a narrative twist or wonderful pacing or the thrilling tension that a …
Are You a Handwriter or a Typer? | boy with a hat
Handwriting is like making love; typing, like having sex. It’s essentially the same enjoyable activity, but the approach is slightly different. via Are You a Handwriter or a Typer? | boy with a hat. Random blog quotation.
Quotation of the Day
“Everything I write is about the stories people tell themselves about themselves to make life more bearable, which basically is what all people do all the time.” — mystery novelist Laura Lippman Source: ‘Most Dangerous Thing’ a tale of summertime & secrets kept
Quotation of the Day
“writing and reading can allow people to live other lives and to try things out symbolically so that we can make better decisions about what we value and do. There is no guarantee, of course, that reading and writing make people act more wisely. But, writing and reading, by expanding our experience and repertoire of …
Quotation: The Writing Life
“I’m conscious of writing as a living, breathing practice, not as something in a textbook or something you do for a grade in a 10-week course. It’s living a life. And particularly for women, it’s living a struggle to claim artistic practice as a viable and socially relevant activity. So as a writer I teach …
Quotation of the Day
“A book exists at the intersection of the author’s subconscious and the reader’s response.” –William Gibson, via BOOK EXPO AMERICA LUNCHEON TALK [2010]
A Slight Shift in Perspective
The “reframing” power of literature comes from the story’s not being exactly the same as the reader’s story. In fitting the two together, the reader has to shift his point of view and so moves out of what seemed like an immovable and rigid framework. In this way, reading breeds tolerance and sympathy for people …
Quotation of the Day
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life; they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our byoyancy is restored. We are given a …
Quotation
The foundation and source of writing well is to be wise. –Horace