May 2013
2 posts
2 tags
April 2013
3 posts
“When I was first starting out people always said, ‘Write what you know.’...”
– Maureen McHugh (via austinkleon)
2 tags
March 2013
2 posts
2 tags
2 tags
December 2012
1 post
“It is, of course, undeniable that the colonial interlude in Filipino history...”
– Joseph Baumgartner, “Folklore: The Forgotten Mirror of Philippine Culture” Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society, Vol. 8, No. 1, Special Folklore Issue (March 1980), pp. 1-6, University of San Carlos Publications
“…cherished traditions”???
September 2012
2 posts
1 tag
“Growing up in Ohio was just planning to get out.”
– Jim Jarmusch
August 2012
3 posts
July 2012
2 posts
June 2012
4 posts
“The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so...”
– Etgar Keret, “What Do We Have in Our Pockets?” (Translated by Sondra Silverston)
“He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s...”
– Etgar Keret, “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door” (translated by Miriam Shlesinger)
May 2012
1 post
April 2012
3 posts
“Whereas reminiscing about the ’80s comes with the smugness of being less...”
– Michael Sarko, “Shameless Nostalgia: Daria”
“I admit I’m nostalgic for the days of TV’s unbidden bizarreness, but I know each...”
– Michael Sarko, “Finding Weird in the 90s”
October 2011
1 post
4 tags
“What distracts a writer? Alcohol, women, money and ambitions. Also lack of...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kastronaut)
September 2011
2 posts
4 tags
August 2011
1 post
3 tags
July 2011
4 posts
Yes, I'm on G+ now, too.
Google+: HI I FOUND ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW ON GOOGLE+
Me: ...I don't know any of these people. I've never heard of these people.
Google+: THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS
Me: No, I've never seen these people before in my life.
Google+: GOOGLE+ SAYS THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS THESE ARE ALL YOUR GOOGLE+ FRIENDS NOW DO NOT FUCK WITH GOOGLE+ GOOGLE+ TALKS TO GOOGLE STREET VIEW SO GOOGLE+ KNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE DO NOT FUCK WITH GOOGLE+ THESE ARE YOUR FRIENDS NOW YOUR ONLY FRIENDS GOOGLE+ SAYS SO ALSO YOUR NEW GOOGLE+ NAME IS "BITCHTITS"
June 2011
2 posts
“…the novella is the perfect literary length. Bartleby the Scrivener. The...”
– Harlan Ellison
Just a random piece of inspiration I’m filing away for when I need to muster up the courage to delve back into the novella project.
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
3 posts
“I dunno—I think we’re stuck in this country in a plotline...”
– J. Robert Lennon, “The quest vs. the meander”
February 2011
3 posts
“In CASINO ROYALE, James Bond is the Bond girl. Look at the way they even show...”
– ubergrid:
“The lesson is simply this: you just have to recognise that, no matter how much...”
– Warren Ellis, “On Killing Stories”
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
October 2010
4 posts
“The fiction I’m most interested in has lines of reference to the real...”
– The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 76, Raymond Carver
“The short story, if you really are intense and you have an exciting idea, writes...”
– The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 203, Ray Bradbury
“That’s why I like short stories. You’re always trying to keep the person...”
– Amy Hempel, “The Art of Fiction No. 176,” The Paris Review.
“It turns out it’s not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work. I just hate...”
– Fran Lebowitz, “A Humorist at Work.” (Interview by James Linville and George Plimpton, The Paris Review)
September 2010
1 post
“This is why at this point in time I have really very little patience for people...”
– John Scalzi, “Writing: Find the Time or Don’t”
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
4 posts
