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Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

—Robert Tew (via haemus)

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To die your whole life. Despite the morbidity, I can’t think of a better definition of the writing life. There’s something about writing that demands a leave-taking, an abandonment of the world, paradoxically, in order to see it clearly. This retreat has to be accomplished without severing the vital connection to the world, and to people, that feeds the imagination. It’s a difficult balance. And here is where these ruminations about writing touch on morality. The same constraints to writing well are also constraints to living fully. Not to be a slave to fashion or commerce, not to succumb to arid self-censorship, not to bow to popular opinion—what is all that but a description of the educated, enlightened life?

— — Jeffrey Eugenides’s advice to young writers (via The New Yorker)  (via heidisaman)

She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.

—Jeffrey Eugenides (via amandaonwriting)

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Find a complete listing of literary magazines here.

1. New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com

• The best of the best. We didn’t have any commercial magazines on our last list, but it was a shame to leave this literary magazine out. After lots of emails here it is one the oldest and the most honored magazine of all. Started in the 1920s and has a circulation of over a million readers. Online submissions: http://www.newyorker.com/contact/contactus

2. Ploughshares http://www.pshares.org

• Founded in 1971 Ploughshares is our best and highest ranked university non-commercial literary magazine. It is more honored by national anthologies than any other magazine except the New Yorker. It is an outstanding publication. Online submissions: http://www.pshares.org/submit/

3. The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com

• Founded in 1857 and often honored by national anthologies. This is another outstanding commercial magazine with a very large circulation of about 400,000 readers. They do publish new writers from time to time. http://www.theatlantic.com/faq/ Submissions by email.

4. Harper’s Magazine http://www.harpers.org/

• Founded in 1850 and always well honored. It is an outstanding commercial literary magazine with a circulation of 220,000 readers. Submissions by email at http://harpers.org/harpers/submissions

5. Tin House http://www.tinhouse.com

• Started in 1998 but quickly became one of the best and best known literary magazines in the country. It has been honored by national anthologies more times than many literary magazine that have been publishing for over 100 years. 

6. Paris Review http://www.theparisreview.org/

• The Paris Review started in 1953 and is one of the best known literary magazines in the world. It is always publishing great authors and great works. No online submissions: http://www.theparisreview.org/about/submissions

7. New England Review http://www.nereview.com/

• Started in 1978 and is one of the best known and best loved literary magazines in the country. It is outstanding. Online submission by payment: http://www.nereview.com/guidelines.html

8. Georgia Review http://www.uga.edu/garev/

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

—Alan H. Cohen (via sorakeem)

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