October 2011
58 posts
ampelleuchte: Kurt Vonnegut's Creative Writing 101 →
ampelleuchte:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal…
“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (Source: libere, via apostrophe9)
“No matter how perfect the nipple, how supple the thigh, unless there is some...”
– Gina (Beautiful Girls)
“Marilyn Monroe took all her sleeping pills to bed when she was thirty-six,
and...”
– Matt Dickman (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
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“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but my lack of control of...”
– Jack Kerouac (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”
– Margaret Atwood (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
– Oscar Wilde (via ruefle)
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“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original...”
– The Soul of Man Under Socialism (via wildeanwitticisms)
“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to...”
– Intentions (via wildeanwitticisms)
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Watchaculturedkid:
360° Interactive Video
Canadian Tenors || Hallelujah.
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“I found the Joker’s psyche disturbing, his dementia alarming, and his charm...”
– Harley Quinn (via themoderndepression)
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