Lyndsie Bourgon

That’s it.

“It’s not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, “Read,” but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, “Don’t read, don’t think, just write,” and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you’re going to be a writer you’ll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think “There must be something else people do” you won’t quite be able to quit.”

— Alice Munro (Via diana-vilibert)

Emphasis added. That basically explains it.

deep breath

diana-vilibert:

“The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work. Don’t lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”

— Grace Paley, The Paris Review

If Ben Bradlee were editor at an Internet co., he’d have spiked Watergate for a slideshow of cats who look like Nixon. -

From: Content Is King! Rest In Peace, Content.

There’s so much I could say about this, and obviously it’s not a case of flat-out agreeing or disagreeing with the argument. But you have to compare the media outlets that produce compelling online content with those who continue to produce 10 slideshows a day because it’s good for numbers.

You can’t argue they both prize “content.” It’s as easy as this: one is better than the other.

I’m also a firm believe that the sooner we stop referring to the hard work of writers, editors, photographers, artists and programmers as “content” the better.

I want to burn with passion, not regret. - Lydia Lunch, in Eye Weekly.

If there’s one thing my ol’ ma taught me, it’s that when life gives you volcanoes, make magazines. And so we shall. - Magtastic Blogsplosion

feministing?

“For me, I didn’t want to marry a rock star, I wanted to be one. I had a feminist hippie mom, and she told me I could do whatever I wanted to do. But a lot of girls think that to go out with somebody who’s cool or successful,they have to be pretty and submissive and quiet. They can’t be loud and obnoxious like me, and they can’t have their own thing.”

-Courtney Love. Yes really, Courtney Love. In a 1992 issue of Sassy - that one with her and Kurt Cobain on the cover.

All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger of feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books even in those that exercised enormous restraint in the telling. - Betsy Lerner in The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers.

I’ve got to write that book. I’ve had very little time to work on it. It will be hopefully humorous essays. Not about my neck. It’s actually mostly about how I feel about Nora Ephron’s neck. And I feel great about it. I want her to feel better about it. It’s better than mine. - Tina Fey in Esquire is my kinda cover subject. (via fightthisgeneration)

the whole hog

“Matilda said, ‘Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable…’ “

- Roald Dahl’s Matilda

millenial.

missprotestalot:

This blog isn’t about anything. Because I’m 23, and I don’t know what I’m about.

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