February 2012
“Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the...”
– The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via warriorsrise)
Anonymous asked: I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask. But since he died so recently, I have to ask, have you done Vaclav Havel? If you haven't, Havel would be a good idea.
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via snowdrops)
“I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have...”
– The Solar Anus, Georges Bataille
“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”
– Wallace Stevens
10 Tips on Writing Well from David Ogilvy
Read the Roman-Raphaelson book on writing. Read it three times.
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
Use short words, short sentences and short paragraphs.
Never use jargon words like reconceptualize, demassification, attitudinally, judgmentally. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.
Never write more than two pages on any subject.
Check your quotations.
Never send a letter or...
“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Umberto Eco (via nevver)
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via brandontylerday)
“What else in this world, what novel has the epic scope of a photo album?”
– “The Tin Drum” by Gunter Grass (1959)
