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August 21st 2012

Reblogged from dreamhampton1|1,080 notes

“I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way. First of all, you learn how little you know. It is true that the more one learns the less one knows. I’m still learning how to write. I don’t know what technique is. All I know is that you have to make the reader see it.”

—James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78

yep it’s all about reading and maybe having good hips :)

(Source: theparisreview)

Posted at 1:30am and tagged with: reading, writing, james baldwin,.

“I read everything. I read my way out of the two libraries in Harlem by the time I was thirteen. One does learn a great deal about writing this way. First of all, you learn how little you know. It is true that the more one learns the less one knows. I’m still learning how to write. I don’t know what technique is. All I know is that you have to make the reader see it.”
—James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78

yep it’s all about reading and maybe having good hips :)

June 26th 2012

JÖLIBIĿITÉ: theafrosistuh: Brazilian prisoners are now able to shorten their...

Reblogged from storyofalioness|678 notes

theafrosistuh:

Brazilian prisoners are now able to shorten their sentences by reading books and writing essays

anticapitalist:

Brazil will offer inmates in its crowded federal penitentiary system a novel way to shorten their sentences: four days less for every book they…

I really would love to hear how this project turns out, because I believe books can change people, but if it can reform criminals too, this will be something else.

Posted at 11:17pm and tagged with: books, reading, Brazil, prison system, reformation,.