literature

We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. Haruki Murakami

'It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.' P. D. James

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind. Anna Quindlen

When is it ??? Just starting Chapter 3. I may need one of Jeeves' tissue restoratives to get through this.

Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it. Louise Erdrich

Like some reanimated mutilated corpse in a giallo B-movie filmed by Dario Argento… It’s back! This month’s One Perfect Sentence is open. So is your mind. Let them communicate with each other. https://colony.litopia.com/threads/one-perfect-sentence-october-2024.14989/

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbours and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what. J. P. Donleavy

To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg

. The man who read the world: David Bowie’s son launches an online book club in his honour. Something not well known about Bowie: he was an avid reader, sometimes finishing a book in a single day. Rock star David Bowie was “a beast of a reader,” according to his son, Duncan Jones; so Jones...

Everything’s already been said, but since no one was listening, we have to start again. André Gide

Update: this has been rescheduled, per Jonny's request. Join us for a discussion of Piranesi, presented by Jonny! Jason Locke is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: 21 September 2023: Susanna Clarke - Piranesi Time: Sep 21, 2024 08:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time Join Zoom Meeting...

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. Fyodor Dostoevsky

Hi Pamela, It's my pleasure to notify you that your submission has moved forward to the second round of jury deliberations for the SLF's Older Writers Grants. We hope to have a final decision for you soon, but we are currently working through a higher than usual number of applications. Please...

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." George Orwell

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from one generation to the next. Books save lives." Laurie Anderson

"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none." Jules Renard

"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children, life is the other way round." David Lodge

Literature offers feelings for which we don’t have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve. Janet Burroway

Trouble at a school in Florida sparked by effing, blinding and blasphemy in 'The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night', by Mark Haddon. I have given this book to a private pupil of mine to read, extra to her English GCSE curriculum activities. I trust her father (a very correct gentleman...