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Willa Cather Illustrated! Biographile brings some of Willa Cather’s letters to life.
Love these Nathan Gelgud illustrations!
- Reblogged from aaknopf
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Willa Cather Illustrated! Biographile brings some of Willa Cather’s letters to life.
Love these Nathan Gelgud illustrations!
What movie posters would look like if they used the same titles as the books they were based on.
April in Paris
8 books that have a certain je ne sais quoi…
“A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of life.” -Thomas Jefferson
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank by Thad Carhart
The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola
The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz
Paris in the Fifties by Stanley Karnow
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In Not Taco Bell Material — out in paperback today — Adam Carolla reveals all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today.
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
(via doubledaybooks)
Bestselling writer Maeve Binchy gives good advice and wisdom on getting your book published.
(via aaknopf)
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Happy Birthday, Maya Angelou, born 4 April 1928
12 Remarkable Maya Angelou Quotes
- The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
- I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
- Talent is like electricity. We don’t understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it.
- When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
- There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
- My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
- Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
- Life loves the liver of it.
- The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
- When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
- Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Famous authors as teenagers, the best thing since Einstein as a toddler. Pictured here: Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Beckett, Mary Karr, Neil Gaiman, Mark Twain.
They missed 14-year-old Susan Sontag.
(via scribnerbooks)