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Susan Sontag – On Writing
I will write in the notebook every day. [Model: Lichtenberg’s Waste Books]
– Susan Sontag in, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks from 2015]
E.B White – On Writing
A writer who waits for the ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.
Thomas Carlyle – On Books
In books lies the soul of the whole past time when the articulate audible voice of the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream
– Inscription on the Mitchell Library building, Sydney New South Wales, Australia from The Hero as Man of Letters by Thomas Carlyle, 1840
Women in Translation Month 2018 — the [blank] garden
Hello, folks! It’s that time of the year again! Meytal over at the Biblibio blog is hosting the Women in Translation Month (#WITMonth) in August. The event aims to encourage readers, reviewers, publishers, and translators to explore more books written by women writers in translation. Here you can find a FAQ on the event. Here and here Meytal compiled very useful lists of books. Here you can find my […]
Louise Bourgeois – On Childhood
My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
Louise Bourgeois in Destruction of the Father Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews 1923-1997.
A Skeleton Plays Violin (Georg Trakl) — Jildy Sauce
A Skeleton Plays Violin By Georg Trakl Translated by James Reidel Seagull Books, 2017 ISBN: 9780857424297 Though sometimes described as a war poet, Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was only coincidentally so: that was where and when he died. This book, the third and final volume of James Reidel’s rendering of Trakl’s poetry into English, is by […]
Reading Blanchot: Everyday Alienation — Pen and Screen
“My strangeness had as its cause all that which made me not seem strange to her. With horror she discovered in everything that was ordinary about her the source of everything that was extraordinary about me.” – Blanchot, Thomas the Obscure
“… in the real world, every being who lives consciously has recourse to fiction; he is […]
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.” — Art of Quotation
“Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It’s almost a form of meditation – an investigation of my own life.” Neil Simon, 1927-2018, playwright, Pulitzer Prize, Goodbye in 2018
How Famous Writers Organize Their Books — RhysTranter.com
Includes Susan Sontag, Hanya Yanagihara, Georges Perec, Samuel Pepys, Brian Evenson, Erica Jong, and more
via How Famous Writers Organize Their Books — RhysTranter.com
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