Essa coisa maravilhosa chamada livro / That wonderful thing called book

Adrian Gottlieb

"When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book". 

Margaret Walker

3 conselhos de Madeleine L'Engle para quem quer ser escritor / 3 advice from Madeleine L'Engle for those who want to write

"The Writer", Agnes Boulloche

“I have advice for people who want to write. I don't care whether they're 5 or 500. There are three things that are important: First, if you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. And second, you need to read. You can't be a writer if you're not a reader. It's the great writers who teach us how to write. The third thing is to write. Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.”

Madeleine L'Engle

3 citações para comemorar a Primavera / 3 quotes to celebrate Spring

"Spring", 1933, Leon Wyczólkowski (1852-1936)

“I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.”

George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, 2000

“She turned to the sunlight

And shook her yellow head,

And whispered to her neighbor:

‘Winter is dead.'”

A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young, 1924

“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Afternoon On A Hill,” 1917

7 citações de Madeleine L’Engle / 7 quotes of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ author Madeleine L’Engle

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

“When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.”

“Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.”

“If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.”

Madeleine L’Engle

A poesia é confissão / Poetry is confession

Natalia Ciobanu

«Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private...»

Allen Ginsberg

A contadora de histórias / The storyteller

Hugues Merle (1823–1881)

"A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.”

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent               

A doce solidão da leitura / The sweet solitude of reading

Mark Arian 

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page." 

Naomi Shihab Nye

Uma ilustração de Natal com livros e uma citação de Voltaire

Jenny Nyström

"Um livro aberto é um cérebro que fala;
Fechado, um amigo que espera;
Esquecido, uma alma que perdoa;
Destruído, um coração que chora". 

     
Voltaire

O Outono nas palavras de Ernest Hemingway / Autumn by Ernest Hemingway

Citação literária de Setembro / September literary quote

Anatoly Korobkin

"That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer."

Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)

49 sinais de que és viciad@ em leitura/ 49 signs you’re addicted to reading

 Não me identifico com todas mas ainda assim há muitas que me descrevem. :)

1.  People are cool but reading is your preferred social activity.

2. You know what a book hangover is and you have them frequently.

3. You plan whole afternoons around browsing bookstores.

4. If you go too long without buying or reading a book you feel a huge sense of withdrawal and are thinking of the next time you can get away to a bookstore or library.

5. You have trouble functioning at work or school sometimes because you stayed up late reading.

6. You’re constantly sharing your favorite book quotes on social media and have either a Pinterest board or Tumblr dedicated to these quotes.

7. You’re always looking forward to the weekend but mostly because you can’t wait to get 2 whole days for unadulterated alone time with a new book.

8. You carry a book with you at all times because you never know when you’ll have a spare minute to do some extra reading.

9. Your friends and family have stopped asking you what you want for Christmas or birthdays because they know you’ll always say books.

10. You take your book clubs seriously. If you show up and you haven’t read the book? GTFO.

11. When you go out to dinner you find yourself wanting to gush about a book you’re reading and the characters in the story. You’ve been spending so much time with them you feel like they’ve become a part of your life just as much as anyone else.

12. You don’t mind layovers so much because you know it’s a perfect time to get in extra reading.

13. When you travel you always bring as least two books because you’re not sure what kind of mood you’ll be in or what sort of story you’ll feel like reading.

14. And if you don’t have a Kindle you just sort of assume half of your luggage will be all books.

15. When someone talks smack about one of your favorite writers you instantly get defensive and suggest they try reading another work by them.

16. You legitimately don’t understand people who say they don’t read.

17. When the movie version of a book comes out you’ll go see it but you know there isn’t any way the movie could be better than the book.

18. And when you do see the movie you’re appalled at how much of the story they left out.

20. One of your favorite things to do when arriving in a new city is to check out the local bookstores.

21. You actually have a bookstore bucket list of amazing bookstores around the world you absolutely want and need to visit before you die.

22. You’ve stopped lending books to friends because you know they just won’t care for the books in the way they should be cared for.

23. You don’t understand how people can be lonely when they have books.

24. You’ve skipped over entire meals or canceled plans just so you could finish a book.

25. You honestly can’t think of a better way to spend a Sunday than reading a book and drinking coffee or tea.

26. You buy all your friends and family a book for Christmas.

27. You always check out the max amount of books you can at the library and get annoyed when someone asks you if you’ll actually be able to read all of those by the due date. Hello, do you even know me?

28. You have words from your favorite author or book tattooed on your body somewhere.

29. You buy more books even if you have a stack of books that haven’t been read yet.

30. And you feel sort of guilty that you haven’t read those books yet but you will! Someday!

31. Pretty much your entire apartment is filled with stacks of books.

32. You sort of hate when a book is 250 pages or under because you know you’ll just end up reading it within a day or two and will have to find something else to read when it’s finished.

33. But that’s okay because you always have at least a few emergency books you can choose from if you have nothing else to read.

34. Some of your wardrobe choices are influenced by your favorite characters.

35. Or you straight up own t-shirts and sweaters with covers of classic novels.

36. When people can’t find you they just assume you’re at a bookstore.

37. And if you’ve stopped answering texts for the night people know you’re probably just engrossed in a book.

38. Significant others have caught you weeping at 3 a.m. clutching a novel but they’ve learned not to be alarmed by it anymore.

39. You feel legitimate sadness when a book only has a couple chapters left. You don’t want to leave your characters yet.
40. You love seeing people in public with books and you’re always try and catch a peek at the title to see what they’re into.

41. When the ending of a book sucks you feel seriously betrayed by the author. I mean, how could they do this to me?

42. You think the only way you can truly get to know an old, used book is by smelling it. Ahh, old book smell.

43. When you find a used bookstore you get ridiculously excited. The level of excitement can sometimes trump excitement over other awesome things like pizza places, icecream shops, etc. Your enthusiasm for used bookstores knows no bounds.

44. You take it personally when you recommend a book to a friend and 6 months later they still haven’t read it. What are they even waiting for?

45. Or even worse when you buy a book for someone and they don’t read it. How are we supposed to bond over our favorite passages!?

46. You wake up in the morning thinking about the characters in a book and wondering what will happen.

47. You own a variety of different editions of your favorite book. If you see it in a foreign bookstore or with a new cover you can’t help but want it for your collection.

48. You’ve yelled at a book in public.

49. Most of your Instagram photos are of stacks of books next to a cup of coffee. 

Koty Neelis

 Fonte

Escrita: "80% do necessário para o sucesso é aparecer" / Writing: the "discipline of showing up"

Jeff Goins também é um defensor acérrimo de escrever diariamente. No seu artigo "Por que você precisa de escrever todos os dias":

"A ideia é repetição — desenvolvendo uma disciplina de aparecer, fazendo a isto uma prioridade e trabalhando apesar da resistência.

Se você quiser escrever, você precisa começar a escrever todos os dias. Sem perguntas, sem exceções feitas.

Afinal, não é um passatempo de que estamos a falar; é uma disciplina".

A tradução acima é minha. Deixo abaixo o texto original em inglês:

"Jeff Goins is also a wonderful proponent of writing daily. This is from his article ‘Why you need to write every day’:

‘The idea is repetition — developing a discipline of showing up, making this a priority, and working through The Resistance.

If you want to get this writing thing down, you need to start writing every day. No questions asked, no exceptions made.

After all, this isn’t a hobby we’re talking about; it’s a discipline".

Fonte: The Writing Cooperative, em 5 de março de 2017


Já Woody Allen diz que

"80% do necessário para o sucesso é aparecer".

Cinco declarações literárias de AMOR / Five literary LOVE declarations

Inspirado pela "Odisseia" de Homero.

Inspirado por "One" de Sarah Crossan .

Inspirado no belíssimo poema de W.H. Auden, "Funeral Blues"

Há mais AQUI.

Um conselho para escritores de William Faulkner / William Faulkner's advice for writers

Quem lê nunca está só na dor. / The one who reads is never alone in his pain.

s.id.

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

James Baldwin

"Um bom livro é um acontecimento na minha vida". É mesmo! / "A good book is an event in my life."

'Read to Dream' , Leo-Vinh Beauvois

"A good book is an event in my life."

Stendhal, The Red and the Black

Os desejos de Neil Gaiman para o Ano Novo / Neil Gaiman's wishes for the New Year

Neil Gaiman

Nós dançamos / We dance

"Dance with the wind", MICHAEL CHEVAL

"We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams."

Albert Einstein (esta autoria tive que confirmar porque não acreditava!) 

"Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music".

Angela Monet

Os clássicos

Edward John Poynter (1836-1919)

"Um clássico é algo que todo mundo gostaria de ter lido e ninguém quer ler".

Mark Twain

Uma visão bonita, uma senhora com um livro. / "A pretty sight, a lady with a book".

 Ray Caesar

"A pretty sight, a lady with a book".

Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle