A chart making the rounds that shows that almost half of us are reading books or novels RIGHT NOW. We’re reading more than ever, not less. Lots of discussion about this including that this chart doesn’t measure the “quality” of our reading. But of course that question implies some sort of academic snobbery - who decides “quality.” The fact is that more are reading NOW than ever before. I have to wonder the impact of ebooks and tablets on this number. We always have a book with us now.
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Écrire est la plus solitaire de toutes les activités humaines, et pourtant chaque fois que je rencontre un jeune écrivain, un de ceux dont le premier livre a été un formidable best-seller, ou dont la première pièce a été accueillie avec enthousiasme et a «fait un malheur» à Broadway, il me semble…
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This centennial edition of E. E. Cumming’s Complete Poems, published in celebration of his birth on October 14, 1894, contains all of the poems published or designated for publication by the poet in his lifetime.
At the time of his death in 1962, E. E. Cummings was, next to…
Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1) Things we ought to do (2) Things we’ve got to do (3) Things we like doing. I say this because some people seem to spend so much of their time doing things for none of the three reasons, things like reading books they…
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A page from Mansfield’s diary
Midnight
Apres tout I live merely from day to day - taking, in everything apart from my work, the line of least resistance for the sake of my work. Do other artists feel as I do - the driving necessity - the crying need - the hounding desire that [will] never be satisfied - that knows no peace? I believe there was a time when I might have stopped myself, and days even weeks would have drifted by - but now there is not an hour. I breathe it in the air. I am saturated with it. Then Catherine what is your ultimate desire - to what do you so passionately aspire? To write books and stories and sketches and poems.
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I’m so pleased KM’s journals have been transcribed and printed - not least as her handwriting is almost indecipherable to the untrained eye! But what a joy it is to see snippets of the original diary. (I’ve transcribed the above from the Definitive edition of the journal, published in 1954.)
Thank you for transcribing that. I honestly didn’t know what it said but loved seeing her handwriting. I’m reblogging so everyone else can see what this entry says too.
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A page from Mansfield’s diary
Midnight
Apres tout I live merely from day to day - taking, in everything apart from my work, the line of least resistance for the sake of my work. Do other artists feel as I do - the driving necessity - the crying need - the hounding desire that [will] never be satisfied - that knows no peace? I believe there was a time when I might have stopped myself, and days even weeks would have drifted by - but now there is not an hour. I breathe it in the air. I am saturated with it. Then Catherine what is your ultimate desire - to what do you so passionately aspire? To write books and stories and sketches and poems.
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I’m so pleased KM’s journals have been transcribed and printed - not least as her handwriting is almost indecipherable to the untrained eye! But what a joy it is to see snippets of the original diary. (I’ve transcribed the above from the Definitive edition of the journal, published in 1954.)
Thank you for transcribing that. I honestly didn’t know what it said but loved seeing her handwriting. I’m reblogging so everyone else can see what this entry says too.
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