an abandoned chest of roistering literature for the drunk and rampant reader.
Before I start today’s post, I’ve got to give credit to Thought Catalog—who inspired me with a post on this topic a couple of weeks ago.
So I’m totally stealing the idea, without stealing any of their specific points, and hopefully we can have fun with this.
The premise is simple: How do you know if you’re addicted to reading?
Here are the signs:
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“Poets don’t finish poems, they abandon them.”
The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.
Why do tears come so easy
when you look at the sun?
I’m wary of saying that writers have an obligation to do anything in particular — most often, you’ll find someone who doesn’t do whatever thing so beautifully that they redeem its absence — but it’s hard to imagine an essay that would be satisfying without complexity, and it’s hard to imagine complexity without some version of what we’re calling problematizing: the negative capability of holding multiple possibilities at once.
DSC_0007 by Shaina Kristi on Flickr.
Dame Julie Andrews
Could she be even more magical? Reading books for kids at LA Festival of Books
“Write!” someone shouted, so I wrote and kept writing.
from The Nostalgia Echo
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
Language that flows with rhythm and grace, logic and music. Sentences are well-crafted and want to be read aloud.
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