(Photo by Steve Rawley) “Once you’ve read ‘Anna Karenina,’ ‘Bleak House,’ ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ and ‘A Wrinkle in Time,’ you understand that there is really no reason ever to write another novel.” — Anna Quindlen, “Being Perfect” Sure, she says some other stuff, about “your own voice,” “keep writing …
(Photo by Steve Rawley)
(Photo by Steve Rawley)
(Photo by Steve Rawley) “Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.” — John Steinbeck “To me, in a novel everything is real, and I really don’t care where the author got it, you know? But for readers, that is important, I understand. They love to know how much …
(Photo by Steve Rawley) “If you become a writer you’ll be trying to describe the ‘thing’ all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of books, one or two sentences, just for a moment, come near to getting it across.” — C.S. Lewis
(Photo by Steve Rawley)
(Photo by Steve Rawley)
(Photo by Steve Rawley) “Every word was once a poem.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
(Photo by Steve Rawley) Hellooooooooooo, cats and kittens, You know why I haven’t posted here lately? I cannot remember or find my password. Ever. It just took me an hour to track it down. Kind of redonkulous, no? Also it keeps snowing here, even though it’s March. Daffodils + snow. Cherry blossoms + snow. Sunshine …
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn…” — Jack Kerouac The author of On the Road was born …