Sign in with Facebook
R.A. Dunn’s Followers (18)
3,312 books
|
133 friends
8,126 books
|
854 friends
609 books
|
254 friends
354 books
|
56 friends
280 books
|
10 friends
294 books
|
287 friends
1,168 books
|
195 friends
706 books
|
110 friends
More friends…
R.A. Dunn
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
February 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/radunn
10 Things I Want to Tell Aspiring Writers, But Don't
You're officially a writer the moment you start writing. But are you a good writer? Only time will tell. I shouldn't be one to judge, but I do. And when you ask me what I think, there are things I want to say, but I just don't. This is what I can't always get out, but what every writer needs to hear.
1. You suck. But there is hope...sometimes.
And I mean it. You asked for my opinion, and I am go Read more of this blog post »
1. You suck. But there is hope...sometimes.
And I mean it. You asked for my opinion, and I am go Read more of this blog post »
|
Messiah of Monsters
—
published
2012
—
2 editions
|
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
“I am not a fool. I am wise. I will run from my fear, I will outdistance my fear, then I will hide from my fear, I will wait for my fear, I will let my fear run past me, then I will follow my fear, I will track my fear until I can approach my fear in complete silence, then I will strike at my fear, I will charge my fear, I will grab hold of my fear, I will sink my fingers into my fear, then I will bite my fear, I will tear the throat of my fear, I will break the neck of my fear, I will drink the blood of my fear, I will gulp the flesh of my fear, I will crush the bones of my fear, and I will savor my fear, I will swallow my fear, all of it, and then I will digest my fear until I can do nothing else but shit out my fear. In this way I will be made stronger”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
― Before I Fall
― Before I Fall
“Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn.”
― Before I Fall
― Before I Fall
“I take off my shirt, I show you.
I shaved the hair out under my arms.
I roll up my pants, I scraped off the hair
on my legs with a knife, getting white.
My hair is the color of chopped maples.
My eyes dark as beans cooked in the south.
(Coal fields in the moon on torn-up hills)
Skin polished as a Ming bowl
showing its blood cracks, its age, I have hundreds
of names for the snow, for this, all of them quiet.
In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.
You recognize strangers,
think you lived through destruction.
You can’t explain this night, my face, your memory.
You want to know what I know?
Your own hands are lying.”
― Gathering the Tribes
I shaved the hair out under my arms.
I roll up my pants, I scraped off the hair
on my legs with a knife, getting white.
My hair is the color of chopped maples.
My eyes dark as beans cooked in the south.
(Coal fields in the moon on torn-up hills)
Skin polished as a Ming bowl
showing its blood cracks, its age, I have hundreds
of names for the snow, for this, all of them quiet.
In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.
You recognize strangers,
think you lived through destruction.
You can’t explain this night, my face, your memory.
You want to know what I know?
Your own hands are lying.”
― Gathering the Tribes
