Truth.
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~ Saturday, October 1 ~
~ Tuesday, May 24 ~
“ Tornadoes uncurling from the sky, whiskey burning down our throats. Catfish sandwiches and hushpuppies eaten at a check-cloth table at a country store. Thickets of poison ivy. Dead dogs and opposums. Meth-head run-ins. Washed-out roads and downed trees. Late night yarns about bloodkin revenge. Just another few days with Daniel Woodrell.
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benjamin percy
desolate livin' down south
awesomeness
too much amazing for me to handle
— Benjamin Percy, via Facebook
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~ Friday, March 25 ~
“ We might say that throughout the centuries two opposite tendencies have competed in literature: one tries to make the language into a weightless element that hovers above things like a cloud or better, perhaps, the finest dust or, better still, a field of magnetic impulses. The other tries to give language the weight, density, and concreteness of things, bodies, and sensations.
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italo calvino
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writing
language
words
— ‘Lightness,’ Six Memos for the Next Millenium by Italo Calvino
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~ Monday, October 11 ~
“ I quit teaching — on June 24, 197l, after seventh period — to go home and write or die. But then the only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
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richard peck
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— Richard Peck, NEIBA ‘10 author breakfast talk, Publishers Weekly
~ Thursday, June 24 ~
“ If your work is to be true, and not a vapid parlor game, and if your work is trying to shine a light in the human psyche’s deepest, darkest, illest places, then you have to go there, and be it, and that’s no casual undertaking.
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David Mitchell
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the paris review
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quotes
— David Mitchell, ‘The Art of Fiction No. 204,’ The Paris Review Summer 2010
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~ Monday, April 5 ~
Neuro-Lit-Wit
“Writing my stories I enjoy. It is the thinking them out that is apt to blot the sunshine from my life. You can’t think out plots like mine without getting a suspicion from time to time that something has gone seriously wrong with the brain’s two hemispheres and the broad band of transversely running fibres known as the corpus collosum.”
(P.G. Wodehouse in the preface to Thank You, Jeeves)
~ Saturday, April 3 ~
Documenting AWP
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AWP Denver
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the greater good
“A group of writers tracking the 2010 Denver conference” of which yours truly will be one. Here’s to tweeting and tumbling and blogging the whole damn thing!
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~ Thursday, March 4 ~
“ One of those young writers who is brilliantly drunk with words and could at gunpoint write the life story of a telephone pole.
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r.i.p.
— Jim Harrison on the late Barry Hannah
~ Saturday, February 27 ~
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