Classic Lit Quotes
This blog is devoted to those little gems hidden within classic literature.
Please take a look through my archive and find a quotation that speaks to you.
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"are you planning to go see 'the beatles: the lost concert' film?"
Asked by Anonymous
No, because I had no idea it was coming out…
But…Maybe, I guess.
My Secondary Blog-SamplingRandomly
Since I only recently turned 21, I am now legally allowed to purchase alcohol. It’s rather enthralling. Now I am attempting to write about what I buy or try and just making sure to remember what I do and don’t like.
Anyway. If you would like to follow me on my path of discovery and wonder and occasional had-one-too-many-glasses-of-that-white, I would be thrilled. If you don’t want to follow my alcohol blog, but have a tumblr-friend-thing who you think would appreciate such a blog, please tell them.
Thanks for reading my shameless self-promotion!
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names."
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Reblogged from somekindofcontraption
I’ll go into used book stores for the smell alone…
OH MY GOD THAT’S SO … SO BEAUTIFUL ; w ;
(Source: timetravelingscamp)
"Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be."
Reblogged from alighthouseofwords
Don Quixote, Cervantes
(via alighthouseofwords)
"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand."
Reblogged from somekindofcontraption
The Velveteen Rabbit (via accio-blue-box)
Reblogged from somekindofcontraption
dweo:
auto-reblog because I am a giant nerd. I reallyreally want the Ambiguity one.
I want the Ambiguity one on a t-shirt! :O
Oh my god the Comma Sutra. <3
I always pronounced hyperbole as hyper-bowl. Ah, how foolish I was in elementary school.
(Source: an-editors-eye)
"A feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and her soul. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before."
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Reblogged from sherlockholdingpairsofthings
The very first one!
Brilliant! (Forgive my crossover from classic lit to BBC Sherlock, it had to be done. Also, it is 3 am and I am a little sick.)
"Sam tapped her hand on the steering wheel. Patrick held his hand outside the car and made air waves. And I just sat between them. After the song finished, I said something.
“I feel infinite."
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Reblogged from fishsticksandpudding
Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck
- Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
- Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
- Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn’t exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.
- If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it—bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn’t belong there.
- Beware of a scene that becomes too dear to you, dearer than the rest. It will usually be found that it is out of drawing.
- If you are using dialogue—say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech.
