May 2011
35 posts
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via animalcollector)
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (via libraryland)
“There are two kinds of people, those who like to sleep next to the wall, and...”
– Etgar Keret, from The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God (via writerintheattic)
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered...”
– The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (via lifeofliterature)
“I want to have experiences. I’m so tired of preparing for life: I want to live...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via nerdhermit)
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in...”
– P.G. Wodehouse (via libraryland)
40 literary terms you should know
nevver:
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Applicability
Bete noire
Bildungsroman
Bowdlerize
Byronic hero
Caesura
Death of the author
Denouement
Didactic
Epigraph
Epistolary
Fin de siecle
Foil
Hamartia
Heresy of paraphrase
Hubris
Humours
In medias res
Intertextuality
Irony
Literary agent hypothesis
Magic realism
Malapropism
Meiosis
Meta
Mise en scene
...
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the...”
– James Joyce, Dubliners
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you...”
– Neil Gaiman, Sandman: Fables and Reflections (via libraryland)
