Os livros pelas ilustrações de Franco Matticchio / Boos illustrated by Franco Matticchio

Franco Matticchio

Com muito humor!

Nove citações sobre escrita de James Patterson / James Patterson: Nine Writing Quotes

 Guy Cambier (1923-2008)

James Patterson: Nine Writing Quotes

1. I write first thing in the morning, about 360 days a year.
2. I find that I’m working on three or more projects at any given time. For some reason, this is a very comfortable way for me to work.
3. Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
4. I’ve always concentrated on the product. There are very few cases where people or enterprises or franchises have succeeded unless the product is really good for that audience. [Writers] always want to hear it’s the advertising. It isn’t—it’s the product.
5. As I do with all of my books, I outlined The Beach House from the beginning to end.
6. I’m always pretending that I’m sitting across from somebody. I’m telling them a story, and I don’t want them to get up until it’s finished. I’m very conscious of an audience. I’m very conscious that I’m an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can’t condescend to people. You’ve got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.
7. Knowledge is valuable, but imagination is invaluable.
8. People that really know me consider me to be an incredible underachiever. Because I was supposed to, you know, really write nice, serious books. And… I don’t know, got derailed, and here I am.
9. If it’s commercial fiction that you want to write, it’s story, story, story. You’ve got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they’ll go, “Tell me more.” And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don’t, it won’t work.

From an interview in The Telegraph with Adam Higginbotham

Patterson is an American author who has sold an estimated 260 million books worldwide. Since 2006, one out of every 17 fiction books sold was a Patterson title. He is the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children’s best-sellers lists. He is the only author to have five new hard-cover novels debut at #1 on the list in one year - a feat he’s accomplished every year since 2005. Patterson has had 19 consecutive #1 New York Times best-selling novels, and holds the New York Times record for most Hard-cover Fiction best-selling titles by a single author (76), which is also a Guinness World Record.

A Santa leitora / A Saint who reads

 

William Dyce (1806-1864)

Os homens não preferem as loiras, preferem as leitoras / Women reading are so attractive!

William Dyce (1806-1864)

A palavra enquanto imagem animada / Word as Image

Algumas instruções sobre a escrita e a vida / "Some Instructions on Writing and Life"

"Reader” de Ryan Holloway (2008)

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”

Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Gostava de ter este livro.

Adeus Inverno! Olá Primavera! / "No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn".

 

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn".
 

Hal Borland

Personagens literárias por Beatriz Martin Vidal / "Creatures of literature" by Beatriz Martin Vidal

Beatriz Martin Vidal

"Eu leio, logo existo". / "I read, therefore I am".

A adaptação da famosa frase de René Descartes "Eu penso, logo existo" para leitores. :)

Finais "nús" felizes?! :D / Happy "naked" endings

Afinal não é só o rei que vai nú, o príncipe também...

Apanha mas é os livros que andam por aí espalhados, ok?!

Lindo menino! ;)

Desculpem lá mas é que estou farta de crise, recessão, desemprego, Troika...

Garfield lê "Alice no País das Maravilhas" / Garfield reads "Alice in Wonderland"

Uma leitora muito descontraída / A very relaxed reader

Projecto Adamastor disponibiliza e-books gratuitos em português

"O mercado do livro digital, que nos últimos anos tem vindo a crescer significativamente no estrangeiro, começa agora a desenvolver-se no nosso país, beneficiando da descida de preço dos eReaders e da proliferação dos smartphones e tablets. No entanto, estratégias editoriais à parte, tal desenvolvimento está limitado pela insuficiente oferta de títulos em português, num formato apropriado para leitura nesses dispositivos electrónicos.

Neste sentido, o Projecto Adamastor tem como principal objectivo atenuar essa escassez através da criação de uma biblioteca digital de obras literárias em domínio público, obras essas que serão disponibilizadas de forma gratuita e em formato EPUB, sem qualquer tipo de restrição.

Tal não significa que o projecto se resuma à mera conversão de textos disponíveis online, bem pelo contrário: os colaboradores do Projecto Adamastor procuram acrescentar valor através de uma revisão cuidada de cada obra, de modo a minimizar o número de erros e a atingir uma versão fiel ao original, actualizada de acordo com a ortografia vigente. Tudo isto acompanhado por um design atractivo.

Uma iniciativa desta natureza depende de trabalho voluntário, pelo que se estiverem interessados em colaborar podem entrar em contacto connosco através do emailgeral@projectoadamastor.org, ou do formulário de contacto".

Neste momento, encontram-se já disponíveis as obras Eurico o Presbítero de Alexandre Herculano, Livro de Soror Saudade de Florbela Espanca e O Banqueiro Anarquista de Fernando Pessoa. 

Encontra também uma extensa lista de websites, em português e inglês, que disponibilizam eBooks gratuitamente.