Jun
18
“Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought.”
Paul Auster (via picadorbookroom)
Iris Blasi
I work in publishing. I like books and the people who read them.
Posts tagged lit
“The muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.”
Jonathan Tropper, “On Writing Without Writing”
Jun
13
“Dear Harry, PLEASE sell this to The New Yorker as I am VERY VERY VERY poor … I STILL HAVE NO HOT WATER. I STILL HAVE NO HOT WATER. I shall go crazy.”
W.H. Auden’s plea to an editor at The New Yorker, as recorded in his diary, which just sold at auction for $75,000
Jun
12
“The Kindle changed my reading habits, because I now buy books pretty much only when I’m drunk, and late at night.”
Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, to The Boston Globe
“I think the first thing—if you want to be a writer—the first thing you need to do is write. Which sounds like an obvious piece of advice. But so many people have this feeling they want to be a writer and they love to read but they don’t actually write very much. The main part of being a writer, though, is being profoundly alone for hours on end, uninterrupted by email or friends or children or romantic partners and really sinking into the work and writing. That’s how I write. That’s how writing gets done.”
Cheryl Strayed, in a great interview with Amitava Kumar at Guernica
Seventy-one years ago today, Anne Frank received a diary for her 13th birthday.
Pictured above is the very first page, on which she wrote, I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.
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