30 May 12 at 11 am

Stephen King

"When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done."

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29 May 12 at 11 am

Ernest Hemingway (via seabois)

(via seabois)

tags: lit 

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."

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28 May 12 at 5 pm

mehreenkasana:

mehreenkasana:

Always good to explore and learn.

Good to see how it’s reached many folks. Here’s a reblog in case you’re looking for free courses and help for academics or independent research.

I went through these and there are some cool subjects available. I haven’t gotten the chance to actually watch the videos or read anything but I skimmed over the subject list and there’s courses in things like art history, film, history, music, psychology, and more. It’s worth a look!

Also available are 150 free textbooks that might be useful for college students who are looking to save some money.

- MW

(via juliedillon)

Here's an online library of over 400 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. You can download them to your computer/mp3 player/etc
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28 May 12 at 11 am

)Edition Installation by Melissa Jay Craig 

Limited bookwork edition of 99 copies.

Some people have uneasy, squeamish thoughts when they look at fungus: it’s something surreptitious, uncontrollable; it lives hidden underground in familiar locales, ready to spring to life unexpectedly, and it often manifests itself as part of the demise of another organism. Fungus is an agent of change. I’m fascinated with its myriad forms, and I love to go in search of it.”

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28 May 12 at 6 am

Jack Kerouac

tags: quotes  lit 

"Genius gives birth, talent delivers."

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27 May 12 at 5 pm

invisiblestories:

The inscription on Keats’ tombstone.

tags: lit  John Keats 
invisiblestories:

The inscription on Keats’ tombstone.
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27 May 12 at 6 am

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via neeyee)

(via neeyee)

tags: lit  quote  poetry 

"A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets make a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize."

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24 May 12 at 6 am

the-manila-institute:

Cassandra Clare’s book series 

(via book-worshipper)

the-manila-institute:

Cassandra Clare’s book series