E agora o livro vai dormir / Sleeping book

Daqui.

6 citações sobre escrita e uma mulher / 6 quotes about writing and a woman

"The Letter", Alfred Stevens

“You can’t write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don’t want even to try anymore. I want to use everything, including hate and envy and lust and fear.”

 Alison Lurie

“No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart’s blood.” W. Somerset Maugham No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.” E. B. White “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” Ernest Hemingway "Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." Ray Douglas Bradbury

“‎Everybody who writes is engaged in the remarkable enterprise of making consciousness manifest—catching the slipperiest of substance, a thought, and nailing it to a page. It is amazing, when you think about it, that people should even try to do such a thing; that they would occasionally succeed nearly miraculous. And, indeed, there is something spiritual about the act of writing. When it’s done in a slovenly manner or in bad faith, it seems somehow sacrilegious. When it’s done well, we should stand back and regard it with a kind of reverence.”

Ben Yagoda, The Sound on the Page

Ler no Outono / Reading in Autumn

s.id.

Leituras com bichos / Reading with your pet

Kim Roberti

O odor de centenas de livros / The smell of hundreds of books

Uma leitora em Nova York, c. 1921.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

Leituras de casa de banho

s.id.

Soletrando L-O-V-E com Nat King Cole

Era uma vez um amor / "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl..."

Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Grey Lovers, 1917

“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

The Big Big Bang

Livros de Outono / Autumn books

Os leitores na pintura de Johann Baptist Reiter

Johann Baptist Reiter (1813 – 1890, austríaco)

Já cheira a Outono!

Por detrás da escuridão / Hidden in the dark

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”  

Nietzsche

A invenção das notas de rodapé

Ávido, ávido leitor / Book addict

Denis Zilber

A vida dura de um escritor bloqueado / Writer's block

Denis Zilber

A professora bibliotecária

Matthew Gauvin

A rotina de criação de Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“When I started writing full-time I was forty years old, my schedule was basically from nine o’clock in the morning until two in the afternoon when my sons came back from school. Since I was so used to hard work, I felt guilty that I was only working in the morning; so I tried to work in the afternoons, but I discovered that what I did in the afternoon had to be done over again the next morning. So I decided that I would just work from nine until two-thirty and not do anything else. In the afternoons I have appointments and interviews and anything else that might come up. I have another problem in that I can only work in surroundings that are familiar and have already been warmed up with my work. I cannot write in hotels or borrowed rooms or on borrowed typewriters. This creates problems because when I travel I can’t work. Of course, you’re always trying to find a pretext to work less. That’s why the conditions you impose on yourself are more difficult all the time. You hope for inspiration whatever the circumstances. That’s a word the romantics exploited a lot. My Marxist comrades have a lot of difficulty accepting the word, but whatever you call it, I’m convinced that there is a special state of mind in which you can write with great ease and things just flow. All the pretexts—such as the one where you can only write at home—disappear. That moment and that state of mind seem to come when you have found the right theme and the right ways of treating it. And it has to be something you really like, too, because there is no worse job than doing something you don’t like.

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily. In the first paragraph you solve most of the problems with your book. The theme is defined, the style, the tone. At least in my case, the first paragraph is a kind of sample of what the rest of the book is going to be. That’s why writing a book of short stories is much more difficult than writing a novel. Every time you write a short story, you have to begin all over again.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Uma leitora que mais do que distinta se distingue

Uma leitora dos loucos anos 20...há quase cem anos atrás.

A escultura é poesia escondida na pedra II

La Danaïde ,1885 por Auguste Rodin. (talvez o escultor que mais me toca)

A Rodin

Alguien dijo,

la escultura ya está en la piedra
yo simplemente le quito

las partes sobrantes

así, exactamente así, así

nace cada poema.

Laura Vázquez

Via http://bibliopoemes.blogspot.com/

Escultura é poesia escondida na pedra I

É incrível como a pedra pode ganhar vigor, emoção e movimento nas esculturas de Richard McDonald. Soberbo.

É tão difícil sair de uma livraria! / Leaving a bookstore is hard!

Javier Joaquin

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch; especially on a day in January, when the wind is blowing, the ice is treacherous, and the books inside seem to gather together in colorful warmth. It’s hard to leave a bookstore any day of the year, though, because a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.”

Jane Smiley

Fugir à solidão de skate / If I roller-skate fast my loneliness won't catch up

Javier Joaquin

A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him,


the best reason I ever heard
for trying to be a champion.


What I wonder tonight
pedaling hard down King William Street
is if it translates to bicycles.


A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell.  

Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Rider”

Belíssimo...assim nos alegra Manuel Alegre

Tran Nguyen

 

 Nos teus olhos alguém anda no mar
alguém se afoga e grita por socorro
e és tu que vais ao fundo devagar
... enquanto sobre ti eu quase morro.

E de repente voltas do abismo
e nos teus olhos há um choro riso
teu corpo agora é lava e fogo e sismo
de certo modo já não sou preciso.

Na tua pele toda a terra treme
alguém fala com Deus alguém flutua
há um corpo a navegar e um anjo ao leme.

Das tuas coxas pode ver-se a Lua
contigo o mar ondula e o vento geme
e há um espírito a nascer de seres tão nua.

 

Manuel Alegre , in Sete Sonetos e um Quarto (Dom Quixote, 2005) 

Cartaz do Festival Nacional do Livro da Biblioteca do Congresso 2011 / 2011 National Book Festival of the Library of Congress

2011 National Book Festival (Library of Congress), com a presença do Casal Obama.

A felicidade enquanto aprendizagem / Learning to be happy

"La joie de vivre" ( A alegria de viver) por Lisa G.

“I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed.  I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live - that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had to master before I could awaken to a simple, happy, uncomplicated life.”

Dan Millman

Atenção! Leitora Perigosa!

Rosemary Valadon

Sofre de bibliofagia de romances policiais.

Quanto é "dez reis de esperança"?

Alguém me faz a conversão da moeda?


Dez reis de esperança

Se não fosse esta certeza

que nem sei de onde me vem,

não comia, não bebia,

nem falava com ninguém.

Acocorava-me a um canto,

no mais escuro que houvesse,

punha os joelhos à boca

e viesse o que viesse.

Não fossem os olhos grandes

do ingénuo adolescente,

a chuva das penas brancas,

a cair impertinente,

aquele incógnito rosto,

pintado em tons de aguarela,

que sonha no frio encosto

da vidraça da janela,

não fosse a imensa piedade

dos homens que não cresceram,

que ouviram, viram, ouviram,

viram e não perceberam,

essas máscaras selectas,

antologia do espanto,

flores sem caule, flutuando

no pranto do desencanto,

se não fosse a fome e a sede

dessa humanidade exangue,

roía as unhas e os dedos

até os fazer em sangue.

António Gedeão (1958)

Este cão já leu o suficiente por hoje...

...vai dormir. Que preguiça!

Cão que lê jornal devora as notícias

O vírus do amor ao livro

Noah Patrick Pfarr

"O vírus do amor ao livro é incurável. e eu procuro inocular esse vírus no maior número possível de pessoas."

José Mindlin, escritor brasileiro