how to write the great american novel, abridged.

[hollyslowly]

In the interests of uncluttering my desktop, a collection of quotes that I have saved in a thousand various .rtf files.

Comments

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

Extremely late to the party (well, three days is totally late in internet-time) to say I agree. I have attempted to read him, failed, but bits in isolation are amazing. (I actually feel a bit like this with "Lolita", except I did get a good 2/3rds of the way through that before the insanely beautiful writing couldn't sustain me any more in the face of the actual story).

P.S. almost certainly going to steal some quotes to reblargh on tumblr!

[formanymiles.livejournal.com]

Heh, I have books like that all over the place. The writing is gorgeous in places but I just couldn't keep at it. Gratuitous use of the word 'savages' probably.

Also, I saw some of this crop up on Tumblr before I saw your comment, so I was like, ". . . wait a minute."

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that is why I commented. I felt creepy stealing your excellent quote collection without informing you.

[formanymiles.livejournal.com]

Heh, CREEP AWAY. I used to have - like everyone else, I'm sure - this notebook full of handwritten quotations from everything that I loved. This is way less messy.

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

*creeps all over your quoteage*

I never had a book, but tumblr has sort of made me fond of typing up book-quotes. It's kind of just the right place for that sort of thing.

[formanymiles.livejournal.com]

Tumblr really has accentuated my magpie ooh shiny instinct, but I don't really mind? It's easier to stay out of navel-gazing that way.

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]

I sort of resent what it's done to my already incredibly shaky attention span, but at the same time, it's nice to "what shall I do? oh contemplate my life-- NO, INSTEAD, I WILL REBLOG A THOUSAND POSTS ABOUT DEEP SEA FISH. OR ATTRACTIVE PEOPLE."

[formanymiles.livejournal.com]

YUP. "Oh, no time to wonder what I'm going to do with my life today, I have a picture of Idris Elba to reblog!"

It is way cheaper than therapy.

[swear-jar.livejournal.com]