“Have you got a Brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushful birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so— And nobody knows, so still it flows, That any brook is there, And yet your little draught of life Is daily drunken there—“ (Who but Dickinson?)

The Louis CK news is so disappointing... 2016: all your favorite celebrities are dead. 2017: all your favorite celebrities are dead to you.

I love you all. Even the ones I don’t know. This year I’ve not got a new New Year’s wish. I hope the world is gentler to each of us in 2018, though. And that we do not forget how to be kind.

Worth retweeting, if people are writing it down on paper: x.com/neilhimself/st…

sometimes. the human gets sad. and i don’t know why. but if i jump. in their lap. and stay there. i can usually fix it

Is there anything more pure and magical in this world than kids reading Harry Potter for the first time? I think not

"But where I can get prickly and combative is if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over." RIP Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the greats.

Ursula Le Guin wrote maybe the most beautiful opening paragraph of any book I've ever read. It's from The Lathe of Heaven. I have it bookmarked for when I forget how words work. I read it all the time. It's here.

By Ursula Le Guin, who died today at 88:

"Gentleman, I just don't belong here." The legendary #UrsulaLeGuin, when asked to blurb an anthology with no women writers. #RIP

And one more from the late unequalled Ursula Le Guin: “People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”

👇🏽 x.com/RSLiterature/s…

“Stories … are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.” Neil Gaiman on how stories last: brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/nei…

Iconic feminist graffitti (UK), 1979, photographed by Jill Posener, British photographer and activist #womensart

“We must be made equal by the fire.” Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon star in #Fahrenheit451, this May on #HBO.

"Write what you know" is only half the saying. The other half is: "so know interesting things."

Twitter, the news is terrifying. I offer you a small boy writing a kind poem to his kitten. #EnglandPoems