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Publishing a digital notebook for writers. Open Loop Press Editor Carlin M. Wragg shares intriguing tidbits about art and design, literature and technology.

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Ira Glass: Nobody tells people who are beginners…

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More wisdom from the man who brought us the Theory of Relativity… ~CMM

iheartclassics:

Wow.

Jul 09
More wisdom from the man who brought us the Theory of Relativity… ~CMM
iheartclassics:

Wow.

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Posted on Thursday July 21st 2011 at 12:32pm. Its tags are listed below.

Ira Glass: Nobody tells people who are beginners…

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Posted on Saturday July 9th 2011 at 11:22am. Its tags are listed below.

More wisdom from the man who brought us the Theory of Relativity… ~CMM
iheartclassics:

Wow.

More wisdom from the man who brought us the Theory of Relativity… ~CMM

iheartclassics:

Wow.

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Posted on Thursday June 2nd 2011 at 12:31pm. Its tags are listed below.

To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.

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Posted on Thursday March 10th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

One must understand that the house of fiction has many windows.

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Posted on Wednesday February 16th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

Pure love of an author for his or her own characters is impossible to ignore. Successful writers enjoy spending time with their creations.
Unattributed - from The Writer’s Guide to Fantasy Literature, ed. Philip Martin (via literary-labyrinth)

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Posted on Monday February 14th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Ernest Hemingway (via libraryland)

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Posted on Tuesday February 8th 2011 at 12:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

It has been a good day of work with no harm in it. I have sat long over the desk and the pencil has felt good in my hand. Outside the sun is very bright and warm and the buds are swelling to a popping size. I guess it is a good thing I became a writer. Perhaps I am too lazy for anything else.
John Steinbeck (via awritersruminations)

(Source: theparisreview.org)

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Posted on Sunday December 19th 2010 at 01:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
 ~Albert Schweltzer