February 2012
110 posts
When you understand that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening...
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more...
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...
– Ernest Hemingway
writing relies deeply on honesty
No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed...
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Almost five years! There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writers aren’t exactly people, they’re a whole lot of people trying to be one...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will...
– H-D-Thoreau
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up
If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay,...
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
…I think we are terrible animals. And I think our planet’s immune system is...
– Kurt Vonnegut
Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...
– Karen Marie Moning
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things,...
– Jim Rohn
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness,...
– Stephen King. “On Writing”