December 2011
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November 2011
2 posts
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via apartment20)
October 2011
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September 2011
10 posts
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“It doesn’t really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist’s chair or let...”
– C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (via fishingboatproceeds)
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“It doesn’t really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist’s chair or let...”
– C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (via fishingboatproceeds)
“There will never be enough money and fame and love for us in this world, because...”
– John Green (via astronym)
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August 2011
9 posts
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“We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be...”
– T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets (via psychotherapy) (via libraryland) (via teachingliteracy)
“Literature is a process of producing beautiful lies that tell more truth than...”
– Julian Barnes (via theparisreview)
“What is the meaning of life? Other people.”
– John Green (via nothingsevergonnatakeusdown)
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born...”
– Pearl S. Buck, as quoted in The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters by Karl Inglesias. (via bookoasis)
July 2011
16 posts
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“Maybe our favourite quotations say more about us than about the stories and...”
– John Green (via saddest-summer)
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck...”
– John Green (Looking For Alaska)
“I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back. And...”
– Margo Roth Spiegelman, Paper Towns by John Green (via vivian-elaine)
“Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via jennarosity)
“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don’t be trying all the time to fix...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via paperlover)
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June 2011
2 posts
The Fault in Our Stars
fishingboatproceeds:
The Fault in Our Stars is the title of my new book, which you can preorder here.
(The publication date on that page is wrong, although I don’t yet know how wrong.)
The title is inspired by a famous line from Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. The nobleman Cassius says to Brutus, “The fault, dear Brutus is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
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“Truth resists simplicity.”
– -John Green
May 2011
1 post
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“But writing does, at least for me, require quite a lot of concentration. To...”
– John Green
March 2011
4 posts
“I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word....”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via libraryland)
“You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you...”
– J. K. Rowling | Vancouver 2000 writers’ festival (via writingadvice)
February 2011
29 posts
10 Signs of a Typical Writing Day →
the-write-idea:
By Elspeth Antonelli
10. The mug of coffee by your side seems to have cooled incredibly fast. You know you couldn’t have spent that much time reading emails and checking in on Facebook.
9. That idea that kept you up last night (and you were so sure you’d remember that you didn’t take notes) has vanished without a trace.
8. At the same moment that your fingers touch the...
