Whenever I feel stuck, or like I’m losing my sense of wanderlust and adventure, it just takes this song to get it all back.
Contemplations
I am reblogging an awful lot of things by http://fsgbooks.tumblr.com/.
I hope they realize it’s just because I happen to love everything they post.
“I was born in Brooklyn, but I never lived there. All my life, however, I’ve been regaled with stories of the glory that was pre-war Brooklyn, and since these tales seemed to have very little to do with my own experience of the place, the Brooklyn of that era has always appeared to me as something of an enchanted isle—a fiction, really. Setting a story there—not in the literal, geographical Brooklyn but in the one of memory, of romanticized recollection—is my way of visiting a place that I suspect never really existed.”
Alice McDermott, interviewed in The New Yorker about her short story “Someone.”
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (photo by Micaela Di Corrado)
“That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.”
-Mario Vargas Llosa, Letters to a Young Novelist
