Ned Hayes's Blog, page 165

"It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read."

““It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.””

- Lemony Snicket (via honeycaughtalite)

Beautiful illustration from Nikki McClure for the novel Sinful...

Beautiful illustration from Nikki McClure for the novel Sinful Folk - coming in 2013. First chapters available for PREVIEW here on http://SinfulFolk.com

"From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss..."

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading.

She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.

Books became her friends and there was one for every mood”

- Betty Smith from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  (via flannelsandjeans)

I’m ready for summer break, how about you?

I’m ready for summer break, how about you? 

helenewecker:ellenkushner:piinboots:giancarlovolpe:nowtas...

helenewecker:

ellenkushner:

piinboots:

giancarlovolpe:

nowtasha:

I don’t know Ms. Allis, but I like that she decided to illustrate Miyazake’s words.

Yes.  All of it.

Excuse me I’m having some really intense writer feelings

This also fits the Jewish concept that the world balances between the yetzer hara and the yetzer hatov - the human (and cosmic) will/inclination to the Bad and to the Good … that the World will not go round without both* - and that a single act in either direction can tip the balance at any given time.

Much love for Miyazaki and all his world! So glad we’re in it.

 *”The yetzer hara is not a demonic force, but rather man’s misuse of things the physical body needs to survive. Thus, the need for food becomes gluttony due to the yetzer hara. The need for procreation becomes sexual abuse, and so on. The idea that humans are born with a yetzer ra (physical needs that can become “evil”), but that humans don’t acquire a yetzer tov (“a good inclination”) until an age of maturity—12 for girls and 13 for boys—has its source in Chapter 16 of the Talmudic tractate Avot de-Rabbi Natan”

This is just beautiful. And a reminder to rewatch some Miyazaki…

Fantastic stop-motion story…. “The Joy of...

Fantastic stop-motion story…. “The Joy of Books” 

"Death to Dinner" : Author Interview at On Fiction Writing

"Death to Dinner" : Author Interview at On Fiction Writing:

Author Interview Posted Here 

“ It would be interesting to have the following characters to dinner… Chava the Golem from Helene Wecker’s wonderful new novel The Golem & the Jinni, along with Sirius Black, from the Harry Potter books — my favorite Rowling character — along with Neil Gaiman’s young female “Death” from the Sandman graphic novels (the sister of “Dream,” who shepherds us all out of this life), and finally I’m cheating a little bit by inviting Jane Austen herself… but she is a character in various contemporary stories (like Becoming Jane) as well as a writer herself. (With this assortment of characters, I’m not sure that any of us would survive the evening though!) “

 

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW »

 

Ned Hayes is the author of the forthcoming SINFUL FOLK, a novel set in the 14th century. He is also the author of Coeur d’Alene Waters, a historical mystery novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is now at work on two more historical novels, Garden of Earthly Delight, also set in the Middle Ages, and A Mercy Upon Us.

 

 

"Books are about the interior journey, the fluid back-and-forth between writer and reader, reader and..."

“Books are about the interior journey, the fluid back-and-forth between writer and reader, reader and writer, the interplay upon which literature depends. This is one of the best things about them, their insistence that we can only be enlarged, illuminated, by entering the imagination of another, which, in turn, inhabits ours.”

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David L. Ulin, “The Weight of Books”

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Beautiful cover illustration from Nikki McClure for the...

Beautiful cover illustration from Nikki McClure for the forthcoming novel Sinful Folk, coming in 2013.

First chapters available for PREVIEW on SinfulFolk.com 

"We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of..."

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

- John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (1989)