Various quotations | #222 « From up North
In From up North’s inspiration galleries we present the latest of our findings from the wonderful world of design. Amazing high quality artworks in various categories from great designers all over the globe. Quote by George Bernard Being happy… Sometimes I pretend to be normal…
In Which We Get You Writing Something Dark And Very Disturbed
Why and How To Write Ever since I began my full-length memoir Jesus Was A Pale Imitation of Myself I have been deluged with responses from fans asking me how I start writing. That's a great question, but I usually don't give writing advice for free, just the actual writing. Part One (Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Philip Levine, Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Don DeLillo, Anton Chekhov, Mavis Gallant, Stanley Elkin) Part Two (James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Margaret Atwood, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Nabokov) Part Three (W. Part Four (Flannery O'Connor, Charles Baxter, Joan Didion, William Butler Yeats, Lyn Hejinian, Jean Cocteau, Francine du Plessix Gray, Roberto Bolano) Joyce Carol Oates Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments. By the time I come to type out my writing formally, I've envisioned it repeatedly. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort. Gene Wolfe 1.
Handy Latin Phrases
When You Get Another Day | lauren zuniga
Food For Thought
The days grow and the stars cross over And my wild bed turns slowly among the stars. Muriel Rukeyser, “Darkness Music” (via awritersruminations) I taste her and realize I have been starving. Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home (via psych-quotes) (via lorenzmdumuk) Sometimes a person’s hands are the only words he knows. Bronwen Wallace, from: “Woman at the Next” (via learningfromthehands) If you listen closely to this poem, you can hear the ocean that’s living inside of you. Y.Z, It’s okay if you don’t know where you’re going (via rustyvoices)
memoirs
Starting on Monday, thousands of university students in Hong Kong have been gathering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tamar Park (outside the government offices) to protest the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China’s decision to restrict the right to vote for Chief Executive, the city’s highest political leader in 2017. Article 45 of the Basic Law (Hong Kong’s own mini-constitution implemented after the handover from Britain to China in 1997) states that the Chief Executive should be chosen by universal suffrage as an eventual goal. Time and time again the Communist Party of China have dodged/shut down any democratic progress. Last month the NPC announced that they would continue using the 1200-member committee, consisting of members loyal to the Communist Party, to vote for our CE. THIS IS ILLEGAL. You can watch Occupy Central live here: x (Apple Daily livestream)I know tumblr is a US-centric place but PLEASE PLEASE SPARE A SECOND TO REBLOG THIS POST.
Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before. Since the moment I was offered the job, I’ve been markedly more careless with my money. I’m not talking about big, extravagant purchases. In hindsight I think I’ve always done this when I’ve been well-employed — spending happily during the “flush times.” I suppose I do it because I feel I’ve regained a certain stature, now that I am again an amply-paid professional, which seems to entitle me to a certain level of wastefulness. What I’m doing isn’t unusual at all. It seems I got much more for my dollar when I was traveling. A Culture of Unnecessaries “You can manipulate consumers into wanting, and therefore buying, your products.
MurphyBinkings comments on Greece in WW2
Good Prose Month: Advice From a VP Executive Managing Editor and Copy Chief, From A to X | For Inspiration
Editor's Note: In conjunction with his publication of his new book, "Good Prose," Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Tracy Kidder and editor Richard Todd will host “Good Prose Month” on Biographile.com, with the goal of bringing together the strongest voices in nonfiction to share insight into the writing and editing process with the next generation of authors. Every day during the month of January, visit Biographile.com for a new Good Prose tip, lesson, or story from bestselling authors, award-winning journalists, acclaimed editors, and favorite storytellers. The conversation will continue on Twitter with a weekly #GoodProse chat about the craft of writing, hosted by selected authors from a range of nonfiction genres. Benjamin Dreyer is the VP Executive Managing Editor & Copy Chief of Random House Publishing Group. Below is his list of the common stumbling blocks for authors, from A to X.
Life: What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about in life
Anne Lamott on how we keep ourselves small by people-pleasing, Walt Whitman illustrated, the "backfire effect" of our opinions, and more
Hey joel steed! If you missed last week's edition – E.B. White's beautiful letter to a man who had lost faith in humanity, Kierkegaard on our greatest source of unhappiness, Picasso on success and why you should never compromise in your art, Van Gogh on love, a tender illustrated story about loneliness and friendship, and more – you can catch up right here. The Definitive Manifesto for Handling Haters: Anne Lamott on Priorities and How We Keep Ourselves Small by People-Pleasing What makes Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (public library) so timelessly rewarding and one of the greatest books on writing of all time is that besides her wisdom on the craft, Lamott extends enormous sensitivity to and consolation for the general pathologies of the human condition – our insecurities, our social anxieties, our inner turmoils. Lamott's words, once again, shine with warm and luminous wisdom. Here's how to break through the perfectionism: make a LOT of mistakes.
