sexta-feira, 30 de setembro de 2011
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.”
“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
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“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
quinta-feira, 29 de setembro de 2011
quarta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2011
terça-feira, 27 de setembro de 2011
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
segunda-feira, 26 de setembro de 2011
domingo, 25 de setembro de 2011
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
sábado, 24 de setembro de 2011
sexta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2011
quarta-feira, 21 de setembro de 2011
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
terça-feira, 20 de setembro de 2011
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