“Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent [...]
Spiegel Online: Which beneficial words do you remember? Günter Grass: [...] I love the sound of the repeated long “a.” The Brothers Grimm also found it fascinating. They practically had oral sex with vowels in any case. [Via]
“It is time to move a decision forward — a decision to reassert FCC authority over broadband telecommunications, to guarantee an open internet now and forever, and to put the interests of consumers in front of the interests of giant corporations.” —FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps in response to the Google-Verizon proposal
“The world has become a very strange place. You may have noticed this.”
“To be lost gives you a kind of succulent freedom,” writes Ian McMillan.
“Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.”
It has been a strange year.
Julian Barnes on typewriters.
“Rewarding? I don’t think that’s why people do it.”
“It is not unnatural that the best writers are liars.”