by kmerikallio | Nov 5, 2021 | Quote of the Week
“Books have shaped American public life throughout our nation’s history, and authors are the lifeblood of book publishing in America. But just five publishers control the U.S. publishing industry. If the world’s largest book publisher is permitted to...
by kmerikallio | Oct 21, 2021 | Quote of the Week
“Writing [came] out of the situation that I was in, which was poverty, homesickness, being unskilled, uneducated. So out of that misery you begin to write things down. It wasn’t like: I’m writing a novel. But this kept growing, this stuff. Then it started to become...
by Karolina Blaziak | Apr 1, 2020 | Quote of the Week
“[Keats] aspired to what he called Negative Capability, when one is ‘capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after facts and reason.’ At the end of this day, that’s my takeaway. Facts and reasons can...
by Abby Schiano | Nov 12, 2019 | Quote of the Week
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
by Abby Schiano | Sep 17, 2019 | Quote of the Week
“Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn’t make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism...
by admin | Aug 16, 2019 | Quote of the Week
The writer’s business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story. Not, you may note, to serve her family, or to serve the truth, but to serve the story. Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist, most well-known for her graphic novel, Fun Home: A...
