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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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“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.”
“One must understand that the house of fiction has many windows.”
John Barth (via theparisreview)
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“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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“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
Ernest Hemingway (via libraryland)
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“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)
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