Who’s Afraid of Bette Davis?

10th April 2008 with 0 Comments

Edward Albee told a story about Bette Davis wanting the part of Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf on film, claiming she was his first choice. Albee thought it would be wonderful for Davis to open the film with the line, “What a dump. Who said that, George, ‘What a dump’?”
When, of course, it [...]

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Sylvia Plath & Tomato Soup Cake

28th February 2007 with 6 Comments

Cooking was the other important activity in her life. It was a passion in the same way that poetry was a passion. Something she couldn’t leave alone. Between and along with writing her great poems, Lady Lazarus, Daddy, or Medusa, Sylvia would be thinking on custard or banana bread or buying the lamb for the [...]

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About Writing:

As I sit at my table, for days, months, years, slowly adding words to empty pages, I feel as if I were bringing into being that other person inside me, in the same way that one might build a bridge or a dome, stone by stone. As we hold words in our hands, like stones, sensing the ways in which each is connected to the others, looking at them sometimes from afar, sometimes from very close, caressing them with our fingers and the tips of our pens, weighing them, moving them around, year in and year out, patiently and hopefully, we create new worlds. Orhan Pamuk

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