July 2010
“Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.”
– Madeleine L’Engle (A Swiftly Tilting Planet) (via teachingliteracy)
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums) (via teachingliteracy)
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Althsuler (via jadorelavie) (via nathanielstuart) (via booklover)
I have a confession.
booklover:
ettys-bookshelf:
Sometimes I get scared because I think I’ll die before I discover a book that could have changed my life. ~Etty.
“The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear,...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (via wordpainting)
Verbolatry (n.)
booklover:
teachingliteracy:
verbolatry:
The worship of words.
“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else,...”
– Vita Sackville-West (via lovewriters) (via teachingliteracy)
“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says,but to go...”
– Andre Gide (via booklover) (via wordpainting)
“He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were...”
– — Margaret Atwood (Oryx and Crake) (via teachingliteracy)
“Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they’re going...”
– Margaret Atwood (via teachingliteracy)
“My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why...”
– — Tom Waits (via teachingliteracy)
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept...”
– — Harvey Fierstein (via teachingliteracy)
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes”
– Oscar Wilde
