Author of psychological crime mystery, Reunion Cruise, and award-winning paranormal suspense novel, Chapter Thirteen
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When you stop reading books, you start losing verbal dexterity, depth of thought and imagination.
A closed book is a closed mind.
Don't EVER stop reading.
mapalaceauthor retweeted
i love that period when you find a great book & you don't care about anything except the book. you forget about everything, just you & the book.
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βIβm a real self-educated kind of guy. I read voraciously. Every book I ever bought, I have. I canβt throw it away. Some of them are in warehouses. Iβve got a library that I keep the ones I really really like. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myselfβI count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, βF**k, I canβt read two-thirds of these books.β It overwhelms me with sadness.β
βDavid Bowie
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We should never lose our sense of wonder.
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mapalaceauthor retweeted
βDon't climb a mountain for the world to see you. Climb a mountain for you to see the world.β β Unknown
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π€ ProTip: Success Is Built on Staying Power: Comics legend Bryan Talbot reminds creators of a simple truth: keep showing up and doing the work. Talent mattersβbut long-term persistence is what turns effort into achievement.
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Creator of The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, Grandville, The Tale of One Bad Rat, and more
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Nearly 50 years as writer, penciller, inker, and colorist
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Collaborator with Neil Gaiman on The Sandman
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Eisner, Inkpot, Haxtur & Costa Biography Award winner
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2024 inductee β Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame
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mapalaceauthor retweeted
I used to get nagged nonstop by my husband for buying two robot vacuums.
Now heβs gone and turned them straight into tanks π
mapalaceauthor retweeted
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
Reading books is the antidote to brainrot.
mapalaceauthor retweeted
"There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life..."Β - Orwell
George Orwell, a shelfie. ππππ
mapalaceauthor retweeted
I'm seeing more people say that AI won't replace writers, but it will replace editors.
Let's set the record straight. AI is a bad editor. VERY bad. It is not accurate, dependable, balanced, or unbiased.
Are there bad human editors? Of course. Is there a good AI editor? Not unless you're writing for AI to enjoy your work (and also want AI companies to steal and train on your intellectual property.)
It's not worth the money you'll save. It will make your work boring and generic. It will not preserve your voice. It rarely even gets grammar and basic style rules right (source: I worked at an AI company at one time). It will suggest "edits" that are actually just exact copies of your fellow authors' work.
Do not resolve your frustration with the editing industry by relying on an extremely flawed tool created by companies that have zero concern for copyright, intellectual property, and creativity.
Writers will not move forward by disrespecting and disregarding the work of good editors.
mapalaceauthor retweeted
People have no idea how much work goes into writing a book.
Months, sometimes years, of thinking, rewriting, doubting, & starting over.
If a book moved you, show it. Rate it. Write a review. Share it. Recommend it.
And if you can, buy it.
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βRead everything... but remember: a book is only a book. You must learn to think for yourself.β
β Maxim Gorky
mapalaceauthor retweeted
Iβm sorry but the future belongs to those who read widely, who are able to write without the assistance of a machine, who havenβt allowed endless slop to kill their curiosity and cognitive abilities. Excess tech is going to melt many brains. Yours doesnβt need to be one of them.
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Interesting facts about books:
Roosevelt was known for his prodigious reading an average of one book a day.
Four books bound in human skin can be found in the Harvard University library.
Iceland is the world leader in book reading per capita.
In Brazilian prisons, reading books can reduce a sentence by four days.
The most frequently stolen book in the world is the Bible.
In Victor Hugo's Villain, there is a sentence that contains an impressive 823 words.
Virginia Woolf wrote all her works while standing, not sitting.
Leo Tolstoy's wife copied the manuscript of War and Peace seven times.
Over 20,000 books have been written about chess, highlighting its depth and complexity.
The Mahabharata is the only epic in the world that contains over 1200 characters.
Words like "rush" and "addiction" were created by the great Shakespeare.
The longest novel ever written is Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, which clocks in at over 1.2 million words.
The first printed book in history was Gutenberg's Bible, published in 1455.
JK Rowling became the first billionaire author thanks to the worldwide success of the Harry Potter series.
Charles Dickens was paid per word, which explains why many of his works are so long.
