May 2011
19 posts
Shift
I’m making a creative shift. I will be discontinuing this tumblr, which is a kind of streaming internal consciousness. But it is based (for me) in consumption and not production. Meanwhile, I have been writing and creating. Please add me at: http://newidiom.tumblr.com I have come to realize that the novice artists’ fear of plagiarism is ridiculous and unfounded. The new tumblr will be...
“When some one speaks to you - whatever they say, the special thing is knowing...”
“You know the typical crowd, “Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do?...”
– Charles Bukowski. (via toniiu)
“Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people...”
– Mark Twain (via creationoftheday)
April 2011
30 posts
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? “For beauty,” I replied. “And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are,” he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.
Emily...
“A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made...”
– Norman Mailer (via theparisreview)
“Writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this...”
– Ann Beattie (via theparisreview)
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop’t we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help - for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam
“Maybe I have an Attention Surplus Disorder. The easiest thing in the world for...”
– Susan Sontag (via theparisreview)
“If you don’t allow yourself to be wrong, you’re not going to get anywhere. In a...”
– William Trevor (via theparisreview)
“People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our...”
– William Trevor (via theparisreview)
“He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when...”
– Jens Peter Jacobsen (Niels Lyhne)
March 2011
32 posts
