"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only what you are expecting to give--which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving. If you are very lucky, you may be loved back. That is delicious, but it does not ( Read more... )

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Pearls Before Breakfast
Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.

By Gene WeingartenWashington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page W10

HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A ( Read more... )

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Neil Gaiman One Step Closer to Sainthood

by L. Ron Creepweans

VATICAN CITY - Today the Roman Curia announced that the beatification of Neil Gaiman had been completed, putting the writer one step closer to the official recognition of his sainthood. These steps were carried out despite the fact that Gaiman himself has ( Read more... )

They also serve who only stand and wait.
John Milton, poet (1608-1674)

from here Meg Cabots Blog
Personally, I think you have to be careful with story ideas. Until they are written out, they are delicate, ethereal things, easily lost. I know they don't seem that way when they are tugging at your brain and going, “Write ME next! No, ME! Byotch, get out of my way, I said she's going to write ME next! POW! Unnnh! SMACK!”

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Something that fails to be noticed by many is the profound discipline that is required by one who walks the Dark Side. Many have the erroneous belief that wandering out and cutting down a few sand people with a lightsabre immediately qualifies you to be a Dark Lord. Sadly, this is untrue. The Dark Side is much more than aimlessly ( Read more... )

Varieties of insanity known to affect authors
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004307.html
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something about this Neil gaiman quote is endlessly amusing ( Read more... )

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