Reblogged from theparisreview [http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/post/102908369981/you-have-to-communicate-sensation-the-belief-in] which also includes a photo of a fountain and a manuscript page. > “You have to communicate sensation, the belief in what life is, what it’s about, and you do it through learning how to handle a pen.” Shelby…
> When you hold a (real) book in your hands, the molecules in your body rejoice. —Maira Kalman via Explore [http://explore.noodle.com/post/102425437938/when-you-hold-a-real-book-in-your-hands-the] In the same post, Rebecca Solnit's "a book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.” is…
> “With the rise of print culture...Americans endowed handwriting w/ greater symbolic meaning.” http://t.co/5kUCgE0u7g pic.twitter.com/SOM2u1BDKZ [http://t.co/SOM2u1BDKZ] — Austin Kleon (@austinkleon) November 5, 2014 [https://twitter.com/austinkleon/status/530098089097711616]…
> Cool marginalia! MT @Lit_Books [https://twitter.com/Lit_Books]: Allen Ginsberg’s annotated copy of T.S.Eliot’s “The Waste Land” pic.twitter.com/9BGL5YxITO [http://t.co/9BGL5YxITO] — Souri S (@_unesouris) November 5, 2014 [https://twitter.com/_unesouris/status/530102655423901696]…
At The New York Times, Bob Morris says an email note is more and more considered acceptable for some thank-yous [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/fashion/18age.html]. > Even back then, Ms. Post acknowledged that letter writing was a chore. > Today, those who hate writing thank-you…
> > In my experience with students—talented students of writing — the most important thing for them to remember is that someone who is not them and cannot read their mind is going to have to read this. In order to write effectively, you don’t pretend it’s a…
At the Paris Review Sadie Stein recalls the postcards she sent as a teenager and writes [http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/17/thinking-of-you/] > Now, as a grownup on vacation, I’m sitting here with a pile of postcards in front of me, wondering what to do about…
Hannah Brencher tells a beautiful story. Here's more [http://blog.ted.com/2014/07/03/what-happened-after-my-ted-talk-hannah-brencher-shares/] .…