“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to…” – Art of Quotation

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.” — Oscar Wilde, Irish, writer, playwright, novelist, essayist, poet

Source: “A writer is someone who has taught his mind to…” – Art of Quotation

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” | Art of Quotation

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

― Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese, poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher

Source: “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” | Art of Quotation

Dorothy Parker says: | The Muscleheaded Blog

“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

Source: Dorothy Parker says: | The Muscleheaded Blog

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1900s)

Colette, 1900s via theredlist.com

Source: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1900s)

Writers in Art: Aphra Behn by Mary Beale

Okay, so while I may have my computer back on my lap, I am spending a great of time restoring from backups so here’s another reblog, this time from A Small Press Life.

A Small Press Life

Aphra Behn by Mary Beale

Aphra Behn by Mary Beale

“Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”-Aphra Behn

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First Night Design | Katherine Mansfield 1888-1923 | Quotes

In my opinion, New Zealand-born Katherine Mansfield was one of the greatest exponents of the short story. I devoured her work as a teenager and promptly tried to write just like her. Reader, I did not succeed! I am sad, now, that I threw these efforts away. Who knows what I might not have been able to do with them now. (Don’t answer that!)

Portrait of Katherine Mansfield (1918) by Anne Estelle Rice [Wikimedia]

“A. [Rice] came early and began the great painting — me in that red, brick red frock with flowers everywhere. It’s awfully interesting, even now. I painted her in my way as she painted me in hers: her eyes … little blue flowers plucked this morning.”

“Ach, Tchekov! Why are you dead? Why can’t I talk to you in a big darkish room at late evening—where the light is green from the waving trees outside? I’d like to write a series of Heavens: that would be one.”

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” 

[Wikimedia]

“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”

“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody’s fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.”

“I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.”

“I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it – to live – to expand – to breathe in it – to rejoice – to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.”

The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

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First Night Design | On This Day—Maxim Gorky

MAXIM GORKY 28 March 1868—16 June 1936

Portrait of Gorky, c. 1906

‘You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.’

‘A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.’

Leo Tolstoy with Gorky in Yasnaya Polyana, 1900

‘Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.’
― Lower Depths, And Other Plays

‘You will not drown the truth in seas of blood.’

Anton Chekov with Gorky at Yalta 1900

‘Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.’

My Childhood

Take care and keep laughing!

NaNoWriMo 2013: Want to Write a Novel?

This is what I hope to be doing in November, in other words getting back to my writing. Do you write? Do you want to write? Join #NaNoWriMo and go with the flow!

Take care and keep laughing!

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It’s just a few days until November, and you know what that means: National Novel Writing Month, better known ’round these parts as NaNoWriMo, is near.

Have you always wanted to write a novel?

We know some of you have been waiting all year for this month! For those of you who are new to this project, here’s the gist:

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