“This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.” KnowsBookTurnsExistenceMorningReaderPagesShelves Book:A Reading Diary Source: A Reading Diary
“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.” BookLightSongBlackBehindsExistenceDarknessFirePiecesBuildingWindPagesShotsEmptyMovedFilledNotesStormEveningDesertStillnessAshesTruestDeliberationCadenceFlareSwirlsDaintyUnread BooksPrancing Book:Frost and Fire Source: Frost and Fire
“I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.” WritingTryingHelpingExistencePagesEditingUrgencyEditsRevisingSense Of UrgencyRereading Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.” KnowsFeelsHumansWellsKindBookCountryMightNightUniverseCitiesExistencePagesLettersUniversalLibrarySentencesEnormousAwakeRelativeFascinatedHuman ExistenceInsignificanceAwake At NightShortnessShortness Of Life Author:Laura Marling
“I mean, what's thematic? How to put it? Going back to, like, 1980, when I started writing poetry. Language itself became an issue. I'd even think about font as an aspect of text, you know, how something looks on a page. A lot of this is the product of a very solitary existence, it's like, language, I mean, you know. A lot of time spent alone in the creation of all of this stuff.” ThinkingKnowsWritingLooksMeanLanguageStuffExistenceKnow HowIssuesCreationProductsPagesAspectSolitaryWriting PoetryTime SpentFontsThematic Author:Richard Meltzer
“The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come into existence, with the oozings away of incentive and kindliness in our natural social structure.” HumansMaySpiritSocialNaturalExistenceConditionsPagesStructureDesertFrighteningHuman SpiritIncentivesSocial StructureKindliness Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions
“I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.” IfsMeanExistenceMorningNew YorkPagesWake UpSorryNew York TimesEditorials Author:Karl Rove
“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.” BookSoulFeelingsCoursesExistenceCreationPagesNotesSizeYour SoulTemperThoughts And FeelingsCellists Author:Ursula K. Le Guin