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October 24, 2014
October 23, 2014
City of Neon
City of Angels. City of Dreams. City of Lost Memories. City of Neon. That was it—the neon lights: manufactured color pouring down over the city, like acid rain, slowlyerodingthesouls of thecity-dwelling youths, whilepoisoning their minds with an insatiable cravingformanufactured highs. It was the lights. It had always been the lights.
"I sat on a bench outside the theater and decided to count the cigarette butts on the ground to pass..."
“I sat on a bench outside the theater and decided to count the cigarette butts on the ground to pass the time. There were eight total. I noticed all the spilled popcorn and how the birds hiding in the bushes would dart in and out to pick at some. I saw an older man wearing a fedora and a trench coat, as the sky was still cloudy from the recent rain. I took note of a large mother and her children, who were passing her phone back and forth and squealing. I saw two girls my age holding hands as...
October 22, 2014
"In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can’t take positions that are..."
“In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can’t take positions that are closed. Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book — leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.”
- TONI MORRISON, Salon interview, Feb. 1998
- TONI MORRISON, Salon interview, Feb. 1998
October 21, 2014
October 20, 2014
"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master..."
“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it.”
- Roald Dahl
- Roald Dahl
"Let each character speak freely, without regard to what the Legion of Decency or the Christian..."
“Let each character speak freely, without regard to what the Legion of Decency or the Christian Ladies’ Reading Circle may approve of. To do otherwise would be cowardly as well as dishonest, and believe me, writing fiction in America… is no job for intellectual cowards. There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or at least shut up about what you do see that’s different....
October 19, 2014
"Write hard and clear about what hurts."
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
