As far as I'm concerned, no truer words have ever been written

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“…Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.” -   John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

How can we not love, just out and out love, this book

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AND I HAVE ONE OF THOSE VERY LOUD, STUPID LAUGHS. I MEAN IF I EVER SAT BEHIND MYSELF IN A MOVIE OR SOMETHING, I’D PROBABLY LEAN OVER AND T...

Its often forgotten that Ray Bradbury wrote not only Fahrenheit 451, but also The Martian Chronicles as well as dozens of successful screenplay.

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BUT MOST OF ALL, I LIKE TO WATCH PEOPLE. SOMETIMES I RIDE THE SUBWAY ALL DAY AND LOOK AT THEM AND LISTEN TO THEM. I JUST WANT TO FIGURE OU...

I gotta get these

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Beautifully written in its simplicity

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“I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning.”                                                        ...

Wow, I think this is a great statement

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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”- Albert Cam...

The best thing

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YOU KNOW,’ SHE SAID. ‘MISSING SOMEONE CAN SOMETIMES BE THE BEST THING FOR A WRITER.’ Lang Leav

Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.

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Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may...

THERE ARE NO FASTER OR FIRMER FRIENDSHIPS THAN

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THERE ARE NO FASTER OR FIRMER FRIENDSHIPS THAN THOSE FORMED BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO LOVE THE SAME BOOKS.- Irving Stone

Interesting little book

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Why the world needs editors

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George Bernard Shaw, Yousuf Karsh, 1943

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old...

being an artist

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I miss Richard Brautigan, I miss the hopefulness in what he wrote

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Different direction

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Blogable films: Fahrenheit 451

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Blogable films: Fahrenheit 451 : By John William Tuohy Directed by Francois Truffaut Screenplay by  Jean-Louis Richard and  Francois Truffau...

SOLITUDE

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I NEVER FOUND A COMPANION THAT WAS SO COMPANIONABLE AS SOLITUDE.   Henry David Thoreau

Amen

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“Not living your life is just like killing yourself, only it takes longer.”

I love the way this reads

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WHEN I WAKED, I CRIED TO DREAM AGAIN.                                              Shakespeare

H.G. Wells and Jill the duck billed platypus, photographed by S. Alston Pearl, Melbourne, 1939

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On October 7, 1955, Alan Ginsberg read “Howl” (Howl for Carl Solomon) publicly for the first time at ‘6 Gallery’ in San Francisco, and blew the lid off post-WW2 American poetry. Shown here at a reading in SF the following month.

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Charles Bukowski drinking on the set of television show “Les Apostrophes”, France 1978

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When Hunter S. Thompson died

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When Hunter S. Thompson died, his ashes were shot out of a cannon on top of a custom built 153-foot tall tower shaped like his Gonzo logo. ...

So I write

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" The things you are passionate about are not random. They are your calling. " Fabienne Fredrickson 

Isn't this wonderful? its called Marusia in the Library, David Burliuk

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When Hunter S. Thompson died

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When Hunter S. Thompson died, his ashes here shot out of a cannon on top of a custom built 153-foot tall tower shaped like his Gonzo logo....

wasted day writing

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I spent an entire day writing a short story as it came to my head, sort of an auto writing thing...it didn't work. What I had at the en...

So get to writing

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Blogable films: ‘The Captain’

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Blogable films: ‘The Captain’ : Director/writer: Robert Schwentke (Who also directed “RED,” “R.I.P.D.,” and “Insurgent,”) Max Hubacher Milan...

Why the world needs editors

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Have you noticed that the writing in your local paper, if your local paper still exists, has become just plain bad? Such is the state of n...

I saw that my life was

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“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.” -  Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

A whole lotta soul has John Steinbeck

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A KIND OF LIGHT SPREAD OUT FROM HER. AND EVERYTHING CHANGED COLOR. AND THE WORLD OPENED OUT. AND A DAY WAS GOOD TO AWAKEN TO. AND THERE WE...

Its winter! I love winter

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Enjoy

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William Faulkner

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In 1932, William Faulkner was offered a $500-a-week contract ($8,500 today) to write scripts at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer but didn’t have enough...

Ian Flemming.

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