Shantal Shababiさんのイラストまとめ

“I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.”__Emily Dickinson

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At the Window (1881), Hans Heyerdahl

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"Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else." _Carl Sagan

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Since I have not posted anything on #Halloween yet, I have thought of dropping this beautiful painting of the three witches casting a spell from Shakespeare's Macbeth Act IV, Scene I.

🎨 Daniel Gardner, 1775

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"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges." _Ernest Hemingway

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"Fiction writing can be a blast when you set aside debilitating notions of perfection and just dive headlong into the creative process." _Chris Baty

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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." _W. Somerset Maugham

🎨 Yamashita Shintaro

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Here are some of the illustrations from the bone-chilling novella, The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James. It first appeared in a serial format in Collier's Weekly and later published in October, 1898.

🎨 Pablo Auladell

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Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. _Madeleine L'Engle

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"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

Madeleine L'Engle

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