“A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. Writing is not a social endeavor. It requires solitude - a meeting between you and your characters on their turf. Some of us can find solitude in a crowded café or the local mall. And none at home.”
—Cinda Williams Chima (via kaylamariebooks)
April 2012
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (@kingofthesavages)
“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (via bookmania)
“Humans do have a knack for choosing precisely those things which are worst for them.”
—Albus Dumbledore (via oceaniceyes)
“If you aren’t unhappy sometimes you don’t know how to be happy.”
—Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (via bookmania)
“[They will always be there, as long as magic lives.]
And magic has a strong, strong heart.” —Robert R. McCammon, from Boy’s Life (via the-final-sentence)
And magic has a strong, strong heart.” —Robert R. McCammon, from Boy’s Life (via the-final-sentence)
“Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.”
—Dumbledore (via a-unique-storm)
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
—Jack Kerouac (via noelhurtley)
“When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)
“In a way, this is a new beginning. We have to put all these regrets behind us and look ahead. We can’t spend energy on what might have been. … We can’t change the past, but we can shape the future.”
—Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a person who does things — I write, I act — and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”
—Stephen Fry (via rachelshead)
“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.’”
—Elie Wiesel (via quitexinfamous)
HUNGER GAMES
Dude, less than two weeks!!!
I officially have my Katniss hunting outfit put together for the midnight premier, made complete by my awesome new long bow, hand carved in NC:
SO GET READY FOR MORE THAN THE USUAL POSTS…
I will have my regular two daily posts, plus HG posts until the movie (however many I feel like… there is no stopping me)!! And probably some after because I love it so so much!! Ahh!! Fangirl freakout!!
