February 2012
24 posts
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life...”
– Emma Thompson (via theprobablestars)
“The grass is always greener where you water it.”
– Unknown (via paperlover)
3 tips for writers dealing with rejection →
amandaonwriting:
Three tips for coping with rejection:
Laugh at your rejections.
Learn from your rejections.
Always have a new project underway, something that will give you hope no matter how many rejections come your way for the previous project.
You may take some consolation in knowing the rejection history of these writers and works:
Dune by Frank Herbert – 13 rejections
Harry Potter...
Reblog if you have a beautiful best friend.
January 2012
21 posts
15 Most Unusual Buildings Around the World →
“Buy a blank notebook. Draw a huge heart on the cover. Don’t write anything...”
– Kim: Advice from a Mermaid in a Manhole (via julie911)
“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
– Edgar Allen Poe (via vintage23elfride)
Humans have the need to read →
bookrecommends:
The discovery that our brains are physically changed by the experience of reading is something many of us will understand instinctively, as we think back to the way an extraordinary book had a transformative effect on the way we viewed the world. This transformation only takes place when we lose ourselves in a book, abandoning the emotional and mental chatter of the real...
December 2011
30 posts
