Babblative & Scriblative

"The arts Babblative and Scriblative.”
— Robert Southey, Colloquies

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  1. "I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
    — Octavia Butler (via ofbecoming)
     
  2. "What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book — if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don’t. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that’s otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn’t fiction. This is something that every child, smitten by books, understands immediately, though it’s not at all a childish idea about the importance of reading."
    — Philip Roth (via libraryland)
     
  3. "So, in me, come flinging
    Forms, flames, and the flakes of flames."
    — Wallace Stevens, from “Nomad Exquisite” (via proustitute)
     
  4. Robin Cheers, via thomerama

    Robin Cheers, via thomerama

     
  5. "We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain."
    — Roberto Bolaño, Last Evenings on Earth, trans. Chris Andrews (via proustitute)
     
  6. "We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
    — Henry James (via lesmotsjustes)

    (Source: allhehearisbirds)

     
  7. "Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."
    — Gerard Manley Hopkins, in a letter to Alexander William Mowbray Baillie, 1864. (via itgivesitthew)

    (Source: poetryfoundation.org)

     
  8. Theodore Earl Butler, via thomerama

    Theodore Earl Butler, via thomerama

     
  9. "Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it."
    — Bashō, via journalofanobody
     
  10. "

    For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

    Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.

    "
    — Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life via bookoasis (via petitpoulailler)
     
  11. "She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
    — Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience, via vmburkhardt

    (Source: goodreads.com)

     
  12. "There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
    — Ernest Hemingway

    (Source: anneaylor.co.uk)

     
  13. "I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still."
    — Sylvia Plath, 1948. (via qtheq)
     
  14. "Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified."
    — C. D. Wright (via nthword)
     
  15. "And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
    — Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via joshuastarlight)