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Writing: The Great Invention of the World
By
Sadie Stein
August 24, 2012
On the Shelf
“Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.”
Margaret Atwood’s rules for writing fiction
.
“I would like to write another book for children but I spend all my spare time just answering the letters I get from children about the books I have already written.”
—E.B. White, 1961
.
“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind, through the eye—is the great invention of the world.”
Abraham Lincoln’s favorite poetry
.
Perhaps inevitable but ill-advised:
a
50 Shades of Grey
book burning
. Explains
Clare Phillipson
, head of the anti-domestic-violence organization Wearside Women in Need, “I do not think I can put into words how vile I think this book is and how dangerous I think the idea is that you get a sophisticated but naive young woman and a much richer, abusive older man who beats her up and does some dreadful things to her sexually.”
Just in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Herman Hesse,
a film
of his time in Ticino.
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