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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

—Jack London

“Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it. ”

—Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Sestina by Zoe Morgan-Weinman

This sestina is another piece written in our Writing and Publishing Apprentices class for high school students. Enjoy Zoe’s sestina!

I am fascinated by the shadows of our fingers

Beautiful when they differ but when they match – electric

Your hands waved goodbye and caught tears when you cried

Your fairytale had taken a stormy twist

But looking back for that second

Made you believe in fate

 

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“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

—Neil Gaiman

“I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now: More words dedicated to people who will never dedicate a single thing to me. ”

—Thought Catalog

“She was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.” ”

—- Amy Waldman, The Submission

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: -- you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”

—E.E. Cummings

“The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful—”

—Emily Dickinson, “1750” (via)

“Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

—Haruki Murakami

“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like: "be realistic.”

—Dylan Moran

“The truth will set you free--but not until it's done with you.”

—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, as quoted in D. T. Max’s Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story.

“Practice is important because you learn to write by writing. No one ever learned to write in any other way.”

—English Composition and Grammar, John Warriner

“Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone—all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it. ”

—Albert Camus

New York lovers of YA Fiction! Come see Emmy Laybourne talk about Monument 14 and other YA dystopias in a veritable utopia, McNally Jackson, with the phenomenal ladies of the Fierce Reads tour. Tonight at 7pm

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