Fanciful Imagination
Drawing on Samuel Coleridge's definitions of 'imagination' and 'fancy, this blog is about playing with things that have already been made (which is fancy) as well as consciously creating (secondary imagination)
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
Somerset Maugham, born on this day in 1874, in Books and You. Complement with Nabokov on what makes a good reader. (via explore-blog)
"She lives the poetry she cannot write."
Oscar Wilde (via lunaraurora)
"The omissions almost always distort or conceal the true character of the diarist or letter-writer and produce spiritually what an Academy picture does materially, smoothing out the wrinkles, warts, frowns, and asperities. At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer"
A poignant caveat the the art of the diary from Virginia Woolf’s husband. (via explore-blog)
"1. Make sure you enjoy writing.
Writers always like to say how hard the writing process is and how much suffering it causes. They’re lying. People don’t like to admit they make a living from something they genuinely enjoy."
Writers always like to say how hard the writing process is and how much suffering it causes. They’re lying. People don’t like to admit they make a living from something they genuinely enjoy."
The first of Etgar Keret’s ten rules for writers echoes Ray Bradbury’s insistence on writing with joy. For more timeless advice on writing, see writing rules by:
(via explore-blog)
"Why can’t people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?"
David Baldacci (via those-darlings)
"There is no beauty without some strangeness."
