May 2013
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“The narrative in Truffaut’s film is episodic it tells the story in different...”
– cinyma
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La Celeste Praline: What To Do When You Have No... →
writingbox:
Sometimes you want to write, but you have no plot ideas. Perhaps your fingers are itchy to write, you want to meet a submissions deadline, a character is bugging you to tell their story, or a single image, phrase, or scene is sitting heavy in your head. But you still can’t find…
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“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to...”
– Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19–28
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“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a...”
– Joss Whedon (via moriarty)
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Villon
Villon through the café window: still present in Paris, under the carnal pomegranate, the piercing stars? Make your stand, if you wish to know, the the rue des Mauvais Garçons, and con the priceless ballads of this lyrical bad lad. Say over, where the sun still blinds the road with blade-cold shadow, the things an ageing delinquent knew, time and again, by sinking up to his neck in truth: wary...
April 2013
21 posts
“Irony ruined everything. I wish my movies could have played at drive-ins, but...”
– John Waters (via banal-echo-gee)
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Avoid the bad habit of overwriting your... →
I find too many times in my screenplay consultation beginning screenwriters suffer from the bad habit of overwriting. It detracts from your screenplay and will immediately brand you as an amateur…
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“To be a successful spy – and to be a successful double-agent or traitor – meant...”
– Restless – and its roots in the Cambridge spy ring, by William Boyd
(via iphigenias)
“And in my dreams I’m slapping the heroine to her senses, because I want them to...”
– Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek (via czarinna)
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A Silver Splendour, A Flame
manticoreimaginary:
Truth is: I was always that kind of girl. Truth is: they don’t make dresses any whiter than mine. Truth is: I am not Demeter’s daughter. I am Heisenberg’s ripe tomato I am Niels Bohr’s piece on the side. In the winter I am a particle. In the summer I am a wave. And I didn’t get to be queen of hell by letting folks off easy.
- Catherynne M. Valente
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“I’d won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map.”
– Anne Sexton, from “The Fury of God’s Goodbye” (with thanks to weissewiese)
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“The wind dying, I find a city deserted, except for crowds of people moving and...”
– Keith Waldrop, “Poet” (via proustitute)
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“We are not content with the life within us. We wish to lead an imaginary life in...”
– Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and Poems, translation by Paul Knight (via frenchtwist)
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“Every morning the maple leaves.
Every morning another chapter where the hero...”
– Richard Siken (via perpetual-autumnleaves)
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“Sleeping together…how tired you were!…
How warm our room. How the firelight...”
– Katherine Mansfield, Sleeping Together (via armchairoxfordscholar)
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“Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks...”
– Lemony Snicket (via middecember)
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“We must distinguish between ‘sentimental’ and ‘sensitive’. A sentimentalist may...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature (via courfgayrac)
this is why Russian authors are awesome, so intensely introspective
(via mufb)
March 2013
16 posts
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10 Screenwriting Lessons from Trainspotting →
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“I long for the secret sunwalked places,
and a god to take me up high amid high...”
– Chorus, “Hippolytos” by Euripides, trans. Anne Carson (via differenceetrepetition)
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WHITE GIRL DON'T - Chrystos
makingtext:
WHITE GIRL DON’T tell me about El Salvador or Nicaragua especially if you go there for an educational vacation Tell me about First Street in Seattle the bench where the drunk Indians hang out tell me how long we’ve been wearing these same clothes & when was the last time we had something good to eat Tell me about the uranium pilings we’ve built our houses out of down...
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“Walking through the ruins
on your way to work
that do not look like ruins...”
– Margaret Atwood, Girl Without Hands (via ifveniceissinking)
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Six O'Clock in Princes Street
greasepaintandregret:
In twos and threes, they have not far to roam, Crowds that thread eastward, gay of eyes; Those seek no further than their quiet home, Wives, walking westward, slow and wise. Neither should I go fooling over clouds, Following gleams unsafe, untrue, And tiring after beauty through star-crowds, Dared I go side by side with you; Or be you in the gutter where you stand, Pale...
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“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache...”
– Jon Blais (via skeletales)
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“You tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer...”
– “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love,” Warsan Shire (via seabearia)
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“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via les-jours-pluvieux)
February 2013
10 posts
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“Let’s get out of this country,
I’ll admit I am bored with me,
I drowned my...”
– Tennesse Williams (via emauxetcamees)
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