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| I've had this on my shelf for a long time, and finally picked it up...then plowed through it in a few days. I like McHugh's style, which is subdued and straighforward--no fancy airs, low on adverbs. I also like her protagonist, Zhang, who's a thought...more | |
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| I picked this up because Laini Taylor lives in my city and has a great blog and everyone is loving these books and now apparently they're going to be movies, so... I grabbed this as an ARC at ALA last summer, I think. (It took me a while to get to it...more | |
“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham
― Michael Cunningham
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“God pity the poor novelist.”
― Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
― Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright
“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
― Randall Jarrell
― Randall Jarrell
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