Literally Blogging

Okay, time to wake up those brains after all that holiday loafing!
Below are some famous quotes/excerpts from well-known works of literature and/or authors. How well-read are you?
Give it a try, and post your answers in the Comments section. The winners get…respect and admiration!
1. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
2. Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
3. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, …read more

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Is there any young lady out there who never read “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret?”

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So every Tuesday, I shall bring you Lit Bits, news and happenings from around the world of literature.

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Narnia vs. Hogwarts

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My strongest love affair with trash had to be the Sweet Valley High series.

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Every time a book aimed at kids displays any sort of darkness or unpleasantness, adults protest until their voices drown out the pleas of their children asking for the book.

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Joseph Campbell, the wonderful autodidactic and master of myth, was born more than a hundred years ago, but he still continues to teach us today.

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Disney ruffled some pots of honey today when they announced that their new animated series detailing the adventures of Winnie the Pooh and friends would replace Christopher Robin with a “tomboyish girl.”

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Have you ever noticed how obsessed literature is with food? Quality literature, I mean. One of the exercises I have my students do when they experience writer’s block is to write about a favorite meal with the most detail possible. Food is one of the few things that forces us to use all five of our senses, and the more sensory detail writing has, the better it is. It never fails to break the block.

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When I was a kid and finished reading a book I loved, I would write a fan letter. But not to the author. To the character I liked the most. I copied the publishing company’s address from the book, and sent the letter away, figuring they’d forward it to Ramona Quimby or whoever I wrote to that day.
Even as a youngster, I understood the concept of writing, as I wrote my own stories from a very young age. I knew about ‘making up’ people and places, but it never seemed right that my favorite characters weren’t ‘real.’ And sometimes I …read more

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