“ I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there’s a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.
| like a little lost sputnik |
Books|Writing|Random Occasional MeanderingsI love writing, and this is one way to actually get me to write. Book reviews|Quotes|Author profiles|and other random posts on movies, music, or whatever else that inspires me to create. My 'diary' of sorts on my journey to becoming a published author.
Me: I'm Britta Kirk. Writing my first novel| about to hop a flight across the pond to a small town called Bangor in Wales, to dissect the anatomy of the novel (Creative Writing MA program). In other words, I'm on a journey to discover why Hogwarts is more tangible than a nine to five, or how words piled atop each other becomes true love, or vampires that sparkle in the sunlight. I love that through novels, you can create an entire world, and all the people in it; You feel as if you're a citizen of that world, and those characters are your best friends. Personal Tumblr: PhoenixTwist
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Thank you for visiting! Feel free to browse through the links below for my list of favorites/books.
READING NOW: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
READING NOW: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
You inspired me to love reading again. I hated the agony, boredom and the turning of pages but you taught me how to dive into every word and the love and simplicity of books again.
“ I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
“ He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head
— An Abundance of Kathrines - John Green (via lalalacia) (via quote-book) (via ilovereadingandwriting)
“ Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.
— Francesca Lia Block (via owlonthesill)
“ And here I am poised above with my arms spread flying and there are halos of light spinning out of us and yes this is me becoming holy human and my own self.
— Echo by Francesca Lia Block (via sleepyheaded)
“ A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven’t eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.
— Francesca Lia Block (via juliamarie3)
“ By becoming artists we monsters can sometimes be redeemed. We can give instead of devouring.
— Francesca Lia Block (Pretty Dead) (via bodywithoutorgans)
Scene from Willow by Julia Hoban
- Guy: I'll tell you something else.
- Willow: What?
- Guy: I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror.
- Willow: Why?
- Guy: I think some lover wanted his beloved to see how she appeared to him. He wanted her to be able to see herself the way that he did.
“ My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
— Susan Sontag (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via awritersruminations)
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