February 2012
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“1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400...”
– John Steinbeck on “how to keep from going nuts” while writing.
From Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45.
via openculture which also has a great video of Steinbeck’s 1962 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(via kenyatta)
ofanotherfashion:
Maybe the most stylish librarian ever - check out that fascinator! Lucille Baldwin Brown was the first Black public county librarian in Tallahassee, Florida. This photograph is part of the collection at the State Library and Archives of Florida.
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Whitney Houston music videos on MTV….
“When you are not writing, you’re going to be sad. You are going to feel...”
– David Milch, creator of Deadwood and so much more, in a presentation at the WGA Theater, 2001. (via lauriehalseanderson)
“As a child, I read because books–violent and not, blasphemous and not,...”
– Sherman Alexie (via booksandnerds)
