WVU This Week June 5, 2013

 

Anais_NinQuote of the Week

 

"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."

Anais Nin (21 February 1903 – 14 January 1977), was a French-born author of Spanish, Cuban, and Danish descent who became famous for her published journals, which span more than sixty years, and for her erotica.

 

 

 

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WVU This Week May 29, 2013

 

John Gregory DunneQuote of the Week


"What a writer brings to any story is an attitude…"

John Gregory Dunne (May 25, 1932 – December 30, 2003) was an American novelist, screenwriter and literary critic.

 

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WVU This Week May 22, 2013

 

Justin CroninQuote of the Week

 

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

-- Justin Cronin

 

 

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WVU This Week May 15, 2013


Honore de BalzacQuote of the Week

 

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one...he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

- Honore de Balzac

 

 

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WVU This Week May 8, 2013

 

ray bradburyQuote of the Week

“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
--Ray Bradbury

 


 

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