“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.” BookMovingSufferingReadingNamesResultsAdviceBrotherDrugLettersAccountsPreparedDepthIllnessIntimatePensCompassionateSugarWiserBe PreparedEssaysTranslationsWebsiteColumnsAbusiveLovelessReplyingLoveless Marriage Author:Leigh Newman
“Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.” ThinkingWayHumansStoriesMovingLiteratureHuman BeingsKeysLettersFingersCommunicateScreensLoudSpellsTranslateUp And DownTelling Your Story Author:Kevin J. Anderson
“When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.” MindMovingFailingComfortLettersBurdenCirclesSensesDecayRoyalColumnsRoyal FamilyHelpersObituaryPostmanGrasshoppers Book:Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner Source: Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner
“Nothing in the world is like this- a bright white page with pale blue lines. The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters.” WorldMovingLinesWhiteOne DayPagesLettersBlueSmellPalePencilsHush Book:Brown Girl Dreaming Source: Brown Girl Dreaming