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"Compulsive diligence is almost enough [to learn how to write]. But not quite. You have to have a taste for words. Gluttony. You have to want to roll in them. You have to read millions of them written by other people."
-John D. Macdonald
The Scribblophile
UP Diliman BA Psychology student.
Freethinker.
Social creature.
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Bibliophile.
Cinephile.
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- Buy me a happy meal. (Tricia Sedilla's Tumblr)
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- incredibly.bored (Aura Soriano's Blogspot)
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- Stercus Accidit 2.0 (Rosie Ramirez' Blogspot)
- The Green Chronicles (Marc Fajardo's Blogspot)
- Whimsical Misadventures 2.0 (Anne Fernando's Blogspot)
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Some Other Cool Blogs
If I could make everyone read, I’d make them read…
Neil Gaiman
-master of fantasy writing; author of American Gods, Smoke and Mirrors, Sandman and Good Omens among others
Stephen King
-whose horror stories never fail to scare the shit out of me; author of many horror novels and the truly scary horror anthology Night Shift, which includes the novella The Children of the Corn
Roald Dahl
-whose website gives you an illusion of child-friendly writing, thereby concealing his prolificness at being a horror writer (read his short story anthology Kiss Kiss so you'll see what I mean)
Milan Kundera
-writer of the best novels of ideas; author of that complex yet wonderful book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
José Saramago
-first Portuguese Nobel laureate in Literature whose sociopolitical commentary provokes thought without fail; author of The Gospel According to Jesus Christ and Blindness among others
George Orwell
-Read 1984 (if you haven't yet) and you'll be freaked out at how his prophecy came true. Of course, there's also Animal Farm, also a bleak social commentary.
Sylvia Plath
-Her poems are mostly disturbing but don't we all want to feel disturbed every once in a while? Read Daddy and Lady Lazarus for starters.
Ambrose Bierce
-probably one of the most underappreciated writers. Click on his name to read through some entries in his best-known work, The Devil's Dictionary.
Anthony Burgess
-A Clockwork Orange: his controversial novel about violence, morality and intergenerational conflict. Read it.
Nick Joaquin
-one of the best Filipino writers ever--his language is impeccable. Besides Jose Rizal, he should be a staple in any Filipino's knowledge of literature. Read his short story The Summer Solstice and you'll easily see what I mean.
Pablo Neruda
-This poet could write about anything--from erotica to political commentary to meta-literature. Click his name and look through any one of those poems; the first Neruda poem I read was The United Fruit Company--maybe you'd like to read that, too.
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