May 20, 2014
After being in school for basically your entire life, of course graduation is scary. Thankfully, there’s quote therapy for that.
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After being in school for basically your entire life, of course graduation is scary. Thankfully, there’s quote therapy for that.
Read MoreDavid Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech is amazing, but Susan Sontag, Toni Morrison and Nora Ephron can do just as well (if not better).
Read MoreSunday may be the day of rest, but let yourself get a bit riled up with these truly terrible Mailer quotes to mark the anniversary of his novel The Naked and the Dead.
Read MoreSpring is finally here, so it’s time to clean out your emotional closet. Get a hand with these authors’ words about forgiving.
Read MoreFitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner and more comment on screenwriting, films and Hollywood at large.
Read MoreYour Seasonal Affective Disorder may now be chronic, but that doesn’t mean you should quit writing.
Read MoreWriters on the good, the bad and the morally questionable aspects of family, food and the holidays.
Read MoreIn the wake of The Lifespan of a Fact and the agony of Mike Daisey, The Awl has rounded up almost a dozen quotations on David Sedaris and his often slippery handling of facts. Reading them, I realized that this issue had been more or less settled in my mind since I heard him read "I Like Guys" on This American Life—a recording that begins...
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