March 2010
February 2010
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“Secondhand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast...”
– Virginia Woolf (via awritersruminations) (via unwrittenwords) (via booklover)
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“There are less hubristic ways to start a career as a novelist than by retelling...”
– John Swansburg’s review of Zachary Mason’s first novel — The Lost Books of the Odyssey — has gotten me excited about a new novelist who’s (re)telling an old story.
In part, of course, I’m excited because I love Homer’s Odyssey; in part, it’s because I’ve been writing about Odysseus myself lately....
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via littlemiss) (via breathsoftruth) (via thedaysarenotfullenough)
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“there was nothing else to do in that suckhole of a town. you go outside, you run...”
– mary karr, from this interview with the paris review. (via paperbackgirl)
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