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”
