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etsy: “Some of the most creative things in life — crafts, art,...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:53 -0500

“Some of the most creative things in life — crafts, art, painting, music, writing — have no age limit.” - Sir Ken Robinson

Read More»An Interview With Sir Ken Robinson | The Etsy Blog

bookgasms: Dante’s Inferno: a guide to hell *cloaks made of...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:51:22 -0500

bookgasms:

Dante’s Inferno: a guide to hell

*cloaks made of lead painted in gold for the hypocrites, which I think is perfect

humansofnewyork: “I want to be an artist.” “What kind of art do...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:03:07 -0500

humansofnewyork:

“I want to be an artist.”

“What kind of art do you want to make?”

“I want to make different versions of myself.”

aseaofquotes: Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:53:12 -0500

aseaofquotes:

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

humansofnewyork: My last wife was 47 years older than me.” “47...

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:05:23 -0500

humansofnewyork:

My last wife was 47 years older than me.”

“47 years???”

“Yep. We met when she was 80 and I was 33. She came to the nursing home where I worked, and everyday she would spend six hours with her dying husband. I said to myself: ‘If she ever loves me like that, I’ll be OK.’ We married a couple years later, and stayed together until she died at the age of 96. If I had any money, I’d make a movie about it.”

mercurialmagic: “I believe that if, at the end of it all,...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 22:23:42 -0500

mercurialmagic:

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.”—Roger Ebert, Life Itself

nevver: How to Make Write

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:12:36 -0500

nevver:

How to Make Write

W. W. Norton: Essay on the Personal

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:24:43 -0500

W. W. Norton: Essay on the Personal :

wwnorton:

Because finally the personal is all that matters, we spend years describing stones, chairs, abandoned farmhouses— until we’re ready. Always it’s a matter of precision, what it feels like to kiss someone or to walk out the door. How good it was to practice on stones which were things we could love without weeping over. How good someone else abandoned the farmhouse, bankrupt and desperate. Now we can bring a fine edge to our parents. We can hold hurt up to the sun for examination. But just when we think we have it, the personal goes the way of belief. What seemed so deep begins to seem naive, something that could be trusted because we hadn’t read Plato or held two contradictory ideas or women in the same day. Love, then, becomes an old movie. Loss seems so common it belongs to the air, to breath itself, anyone’s. We’re left with style, a particular way of standing and saying, the idiosyncratic look at the frown which means nothing until we say it does. Years later, long after we believed it peculiar to ourselves, we return to love. We return to everything strange, inchoate, like living with someone, like living alone, settling for the partial, the almost satisfactory sense of it. —Stephen Dunn, from New & Selected Poems 1974-1994

Our advice to every author that we ever talk to about anything

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:36:17 -0500

lifeinsmallpresspublishing:

areyouahauntedpotato: ozyreads: stankface: mentation: n4maste...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:48:34 -0500

areyouahauntedpotato:

ozyreads:

stankface:

mentation:

n4maste:

i think its cool that theyre both black

My history professor told me there are 300 shades of African skin, I believe him.

FINALLY!

A fucking pic that doesn’t fetishize albinos!!!! I never thought I’d live to see the day tbh.

holy shit that is an amazing visual

Omg what I thought those people were painted

Holy cow is that their real skin human diversity is amazing

"All you can give us is what life is about from your point if view."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:15:10 -0500

“All you can give us is what life is about from your point if view.”

- Anne Lamott, “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”

"First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!"

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:12:22 -0500

“First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!”

- Ray Bradbury (via yeahwriters)

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Sun, 31 Mar 2013 12:24:19 -0500

chrisfox: The English language is crazy!

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:36:41 -0500

chrisfox:

The English language is crazy!

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 10:48:26 -0500

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. I write to do all the things the viewers want too. So the intensity of the fan response is enormously gratifying. It means I hit a nerve.” - Joss Whedon

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Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:55:42 -0500

"When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth."

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:15:43 -0500

“When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see."

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:13:51 -0500

“Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.”

- Paul Klee (via denisforkas)

bookspaperscissors: tdylan: http://www.katemacdowell.com

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:14:23 -0500

bookspaperscissors:

tdylan:

http://www.katemacdowell.com

Don't fall in love with your monkey

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:10:19 -0500

Don't fall in love with your monkey