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(Source: spells-of-life, via shalott)

He’s wearing that sodding, fucking jacket and the self-pitying expression that she’s only ever seen him take off on stage or in bed.  

The first thing I’ve written in a few weeks.  Catharsis.  

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Quotation of the day

touchrussia:

My stories are basically advice to a man on how to act in a crowd

Forgotten Soviet writer Varlam Shalamov talks about his art

Read more about this great-yet-underappreciated author: Advice on how to act in a crowd 

I think if someone put a gun to my head and made me choose, Varlam Shalamov would be the person I called my favourite writer.  Indescribably beautiful prose.  I could only read one of his (very) short stories at a time because they were too perfect and too painful.  

(via khrushchev-is-my-homeboy)

"You should be writing from life. From the depths of your soul… There is more to you than this, if you have the courage to write it."

Professor Bhaer from Little Women (via nothingisdefinite)

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Last words from A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

(Source: wingedwolves, via shalott)

also, when my exam is over and after the grilling I’m going to sit down and start writing my awesome biblical women thing in earnest.

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Favorite Snacks of the Great Writers

I hope this is true.

(via shalott)

So I wrote something:

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Zadie Smith has got me writing.