February 2012
18 posts
“1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400...”
– John Steinbeck on “how to keep from going nuts” while writing.
From Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 45.
via openculture which also has a great video of Steinbeck’s 1962 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
(via kenyatta)
wild young heart: “These love songs we internalize... →
wildyounghearttt:
“These love songs we internalize and before we realize it’s too late, we are already victims to these cycles of unhealthy relationships. Acting out of desperation, our fears grow into monsters, fed by our insecurities, molding our perceptions of love. Tainting it’s potential, we become vulnerable…
amare-amaranthine:
threes reasons (not) to go back
his skin tasted like melting frost the cold that fogged my windows when i left my car in the winter air .
there was an emptiness about him a chill that felt like liquid at fingers but was inhaled as weightless air .
i was always drowning at his side with a summer heart, and lungs coated and heavy with his breath .
(sometimes i thought he...
“Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is...”
– Erin Foster (Hellogiggles)
Relevant. (via hennnypotter)
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”
– Franz Kafka
