Steve Jobs elogia os loucos do mundo, "the crazy ones".

Num minuto.

Steve Jobs falou em Stanford sobre a vida e sobre a morte.

Steve Jobs, co-fundador e director executivo da Apple e dos Estúdios de Animação Pixar, fundador da Apple, criador de produtos como o Macintosh, o iPad ou o iPhone, discursou, na Universidade de Stanford em 2005, sobre os diferentes marcos da sua vida, as suas conquistas, as suas paixões, e sobre a morte.

Morreu esta 4ª feira, aos 56 anos de idade.

Veja AQUI o vídeo deste discurso.

O mês das Bibliotecas Escolares em 6 ilustrações / School libraries: 6 illustrations

A primeira ilustração é de Alison Davis Lyne e as restantes são de Nicole Wong.

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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

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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

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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)