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Sunday, May 11th, 2008Writing for yourself is a powerful search mechanism: there's no better way to find out who you are and what you know and what you think. --William Zinsser, On Writing Well
Writing for yourself is a powerful search mechanism: there's no better way to find out who you are and what you know and what you think. --William Zinsser, On Writing Well
bird by bird: give and give and give and give
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008More words from Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: You are going to have to give and give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and ...
of poets and mathematicians
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008In Orthodoxy, the ever quotable GK Chesterton writes: Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. Those words have meandered back into my head while reflecting on yesterday's quote from Anne Lamott. Chesterton suggests that it is the exercise of expression that ...
create or die
Friday, January 18th, 2008“We each have to say it, to say it in our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes out through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn’t what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in ...