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Now I’m excited!!
Another Tuesday, another pair of new books to be excited about!
Bookrageous favorites out today!
The always awesome Margaret Atwood recounts her experiences with the literary world of science fiction in In Other Worlds, while in Making an Exit, Sarah Murray looks at the myriad ways we mark others’ passing from this world.
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
I Read Banned Books by Oak Park Public Library on Flickr.
(via pencilandparchment)
Toldjuh it was important.
Simple, but effective.
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“Censorship is like telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
Check out more quotes on censorship for Banned Books Week.
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What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
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The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must not know only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.
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You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
- Mary Oliver.
I like this kind of religion.
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Authors will tell you that there’s no compliment quite like the unexpected one from your anonymous copyeditor.
