“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
Well, my mug shot is taken, and my first column for the Colorado Daily is up! I’m SO excited. Hope it all goes well!
Silence cannot hide anything - which is more than you can say for words.From the play “The Ghost Sonata” by Swedish author-playwright August Strindberg (born 1849, died May 14, 1912)
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.Alfred Whitney (via quotatiousquotations)(via towriteistobleed)
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.William Zinsser, “On Writing Well”
This is the opposite of shallow… This is emotionally magnificent.Michael Scott (via truthinfiction)
As a novelist, I can say…the dictionary is the most entertaining book I have ever read.Patricia Highsmith, from her journal, June 1971 (via wwnorton)
An interesting read on eReader evolution from The Atlantic. Worth considering, especially for someone like me not completely sold on the eReader, admittedly convenient as they are.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The first line from “The Go-Between” (1953)
I’m relatively proud of the number of these I’ve read, and am intrigued by a fair few to go out and read those too!
These are the American Book Review’s top 100 best first lines of novels.
