Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 25
November 8, 2013
exhibition-ism:
Peter Adamyan's new solo show is now on view at...
"I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and..."
“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”
- Egon Schiele (via likeafieldmouse)
- Egon Schiele (via likeafieldmouse)
"To be a good novelist, you need to keep your sense of curiosity alive. You need to be the kind of..."
“To be a good novelist, you need to keep your sense of curiosity alive. You need to be the kind of person who wants to know things: about people, about events, about objects. What made you want to become a pilot? Do you get on with your sister? What is that police car doing there? Who lives in that tiny/big/smelly house? Who dropped that hand-written note in the park, and what does it say? Good fiction writers are nosey. I think “write what you know” is the single worst piece of writing advice. Instead, write what you’re really interested in. Write what is going to keep you awake at night; write what you don’t understand; write to figure something out. Good novels are journeys into the unknown, for their authors as well as their readers.”
- Toni Jordan, “Sparks to Make Flame: On the Ideas behind Fiction” (via millionsmillions)
- Toni Jordan, “Sparks to Make Flame: On the Ideas behind Fiction” (via millionsmillions)
November 7, 2013
modern-day-sideshow:
wearejohnlocked:
captured-ghosts:
How...
How dare a woman use a relevant anatomically correct term in a debate about abortion!
sometimes I struggle to believe that the usa is a real country and not an elaborate joke
Sometimes we all struggle to believe that we’re a real country
November 6, 2013
"I always think when I’m starting a new project, ‘I want to do everything in this book; I want it to..."
“I always think when I’m starting a new project, ‘I want to do everything in this book; I want it to cover every single thing.’ And it doesn’t ever turn out that way. It can’t happen. But that’s always the emotion I have pulling at me. I try to pour in every charged particle, and say all that must be said, and of course I can’t. Which means that the next book has to be about everything. So I give it another shot, and that one also falls short. Each book is in some way trying to correct the state of imbalance and incompletion left by its predecessors—chugging around the garden, watering new tomatoes.”
- Nicholson Baker (via mttbll)
- Nicholson Baker (via mttbll)
November 4, 2013
"A book can tell a kind of uber-story, in addition to the ones being told by the individual stories...."
“A book can tell a kind of uber-story, in addition to the ones being told by the individual stories. And my experience has been that once you figure out which stories are in the book, there is an optimal order—or at least a good order—that will serve to make that uber-story more clear, and to make the book more than the sum of its parts—in other words, the book can be saying and doing things you couldn’t have predicted or planned at the outset. And it can be saying and doing things that, even when the book is done, you can’t quite specify or enumerate. That would be the goal I think: an irreducible language object.”
- George Saunders (via mttbll)
- George Saunders (via mttbll)
