Coffeehouse Junkie

Write as much as you can!! Write, write, write until your fingers break!

Anton Chekhov (via libraryland)

Wipe your hand across your mouth, and laugh;
The worlds revolve like ancient women
Gathering fuel in vacant lots.

T.S. Eliot, “Preludes” (via the-final-sentence)

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.

William Gass (via theparisreview)

Though I was groomed in traditional, old-school journalism with a capital J, I realize that the world—and that includes journalism—is evolving and I have to adapt and evolve with it. In this digital age and with social media I think the fact that viewers can reach out and tell us things instantly is amazing for us, but we can’t allow those tools to make us paranoid about what we say or do. We walk a fine line between objectivity and being too vulnerable to the whims of the audience. We have to balance that by making sure we go back to old-school fact checking regardless of what’s trending. We have to give viewers the truth and tell them the news.

CNN’s Don Lemon lays out his media diet. Read the rest of the interview at The Atlantic Wire. (via theatlantic)

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)

Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.

Ernest Hemingway, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (via libraryland)

The history of art is the history of iconoclasm, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong.

Richard Powers (via theparisreview)

I think the names of colors are at the edge between where language fails and where it’s at its most powerful.

A. S. Byatt (via theparisreview)

It is a luxury to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fever-inmymind)