February 2012
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Feeling left out - my heart is in your hands
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andrewharlow:
“The artist is by necessity a collector.”
-Paul Rand
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"25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore" →
“18. People use whatever is close at hand for bookmarks—toothpicks, photographs, kleenex, and the very occasional fifty dollar bill, which will keep you leafing through books way beyond the point where it’s productive.”
“Probably my most favorite paper items to find are things that are so beautifully...”
– Richard D. Sheaff
of Sheaff Ephemera
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Saves The Day - the vast spoils of America
10 ways to be invisible, or rules for making →
Elmore Leonard with rules to remain invisible when writing a book that help show rather than tell. Number 10 and the unofficial number 11:
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. A rule that came to mind in 1983. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the writer is doing, he’s writing, perpetrating...
