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An anonymous author’s novel written on the walls of an abandoned house in Chongqing, China

11th May 2012✧23:5016,631 notes

Critical Epigraphs in the Age of Digital Reproduction

“It would be so nice to have my work mean something, mean something to so many people, mean something to so many critics, to so many undoubtedly important critics; it would be so nice for everyone to see that my work means something to so many undoubtedly important critics; it would be so nice to read good things about my work; even if they just come from my friends doing me a favor, or even if they are a stranger paid to review it, or even if nobody will recognize their names, it would be nice to fill five or four pages (or three, even three pages, a modest and fully justified three pages) of my book with wonderful adjectives of praise; it would not be nice to face the darkness of my soul without my glowing epigraphs; no, it will not be nice to face the nothingness of my being without them; it will be so nice when, in a bookshop, on a web vendor’s site, in a PDF preview of my reasonably priced ebook edition, it will be so nice when a potential reader sees these few (but yet so essential, so essential) pages of all the nice things that all the nice people said about my work; it will be so nice when I no longer will be jealous of all the nice things that all the nice people have said about other writers’ work; it will be so nice when they all inevitably love me; it will be so nice to show other people, to show my children, my children’s children, other people’s children; nice, yes, nice is the fitting word for it, the only word for it, yes, yes, yes, yes.”

- Jacob Kempfert

Kempfert graduates from UMaine this year with an MA in Creative Writing: Fiction. Not just a career worth watching, but one worth catching up on.

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28th Apr 2012✧00:31

24freedinners:

sundaygirl: Writer’s Block. Dorothy Parker telegram to editor.

24th Jan 2012✧00:4567 notes

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7th Oct 2011✧22:18

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Life is hard. Here is someone.: Parts of Housekeeping I Liked:

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The idea of even writing about Marilynne Robinson’s writing in a way that doesn’t do it and anyone who reads this a disservice is a far greater task than I am ready for. Instead here are some things I doggy-eared. Or here are some pages I did and now, months later, I am not sure what I meant to…

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24th Aug 2011✧12:4435 notes

"The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours."

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The History Boys (via lavenderlines) (via unicornology)

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