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A Tale of (At Least) Two Cities

I'm actually Amy. I live in Auckland currently, and Seattle ideally.

Posts tagged writing:

July 29, 2011 with 8 notes
        tags: writing. repitition. originality.

“Would I had phrases that are not known, in new language that has not been used not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.”

July 24, 2011
        tags: annie dillard. knowledge. writing. sharing. sage advice.

The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

—Annie Dillard

June 27, 2011 with 469 notes
        tags: virginia woolf. feminism. writing.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

—Virginia Woolf

June 26, 2011 with 7 notes
        tags: jacob epstein. stanley fish. sentences. style. prose. eloquence. how to write a sentence. writing.

“The only way to write is well, and how you do it is your own damn business.”

Jacob Epstein on how to read to learn to write well.

May 31, 2011 with 11 notes
        tags: writing. writers. authors. thomas mann.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

—Thomas Mann

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