Emily M. Danforth's Blog, page 28

"I seem to need two things that are quite unlike each other. One is very tactile and visceral – a..."

“I seem to need two things that are quite unlike each other. One is very tactile and visceral – a sense of time and place. Along with that is something else – very abstract ideas of things that interest me. … The characters come later – the time and the place and the big idea lead to the people, ideally.”

- Jennifer Egan on how she gets her novel ideas at the 2013 New Yorker Festival. Pair with Egan’s 12 favorite books. (via explore-blog)

"The French called this time of day “l’heure bleue.” To the English it was “the gloaming.” The very..."

“The French called this time of day “l’heure bleue.” To the English it was “the gloaming.” The very word “gloaming” reverberates, echoes—the gloaming, the glimmer, the glitter, the glisten, the glamour—carrying in its consonants the images of houses shuttering, gardens darkening, grass-lined rivers slipping through the shadows. During the blue nights you think the end of day will never come. As the blue nights draw to a close (and they will, and they do) you experience an actual chill, an apprehension of illness, at the moment you first notice: the blue light is going, the days are already shortening, the summer is gone.”

- Joan Didion, Blue Nights. (via theendofpromise)

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"Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not,..."

“Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it’s very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can’t get fired if you don’t write, and most of the time you don’t get rewarded if you do. But don’t quit.”

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ANDRE DUBUS (via kadrey)

I’m on year eight (of seriously pursuing publication) and I still need this reminder sometimes. Thanks, Mette.

(via aprilynnepike)

fer1972:Hitchcock’s The Birds by simonprades

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Hitchcock’s The Birds by simonprades

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Torafu’s Haunted House

likeafieldmouse:Adria Canameras - Watercolor (2012)

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 - Watercolor (2012)

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Life’s Deadly Disease by  Jeremy Young

"'You are a mystery, my dear,' her mother said, and Grady, gazing across the table through a..."

“'You are a mystery, my dear,' her mother said, and Grady, gazing across the table through a centrepiece of roses and fern, smiled indulgently: yes, I am a mystery, and it pleased her to think so.”

- Truman Capote, Summer Crossing (via sunny-livadia)