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If music be the food of love, play on. –Twelfth Night
Speak low if you speak love. –Much Ado About Nothing
There’s beggary in love that can be reckoned. –Antony & Cleopatra
The course of true love never did run smooth. –A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Love goes by haps; Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. –Much Ado [...]
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“Did Agatha Christie, who wrote several dozen mystery novels during her 53-year career, suffer from Alzheimer’s-related dementia?”
via NYTimes.com
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Cormac McCarthy’s typewriter is being auctioned. McCarthy says: “It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station hose. … I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not published. Including all drafts and correspondence I would put this at about five million [...]
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Getting rid of a book is “like throwing away a plant. They feel sort of alive.” via Stacked Up; Writers show off their shelves
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“Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn’t have done it that way. Things I’ve written about are no longer of any [...]
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“Almost exclusively, writers are the only ones among us who are given the chance to live their lives all over again.
“Only writers can reprise, revise or reorder events, to rearrange the content, the tone and the outcome of any moment of their past.”
–From a previously unpublished speech Larry Gelbart wrote for a fundraiser for the [...]
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Dostoevsky challenged Turgenev to a duel.
[via Los Angeles Times]
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Hemingway’s grandson is attempting to “set the record straight” about his grandmother with the publication of “the restored edition” of A Moveable Feast. “It turns out that the story behind the editing of the book is nearly as juicy as the tales within it, and has become something of a multigenerational custody battle over how [...]
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I love Lorrie Moore’s writing. She can put me in the space where funny and sad overlap, and that’s a place I like to be in. [read more]
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Today J.D. Salinger took legal action to stop publication of a “sequel” to The Catcher in the Rye written by a former gravedigger and debut novelist.
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It can be challenging to find a quiet space to work — even when you're alone. [read on...]
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A former gravedigger and debut novelist has penned a sequel to J D Salinger’s seminal work The Catcher in the Rye which is due to be released next month.
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