"The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and ( Read more... )

Why do I do this random quote thing, you ask?  So do I.

"Man's greatest motivating force is his desire to please woman!"
-  Napolean Hill

"But the love of a woman can do strange things to a man..."
-  Neil Gaiman

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to  the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If ( Read more... )

"Even if I wanted to go, my schedule wouldn't allow it! Let's see here... ah, yes ( Read more... )

"Silly Daddy ( Read more... )

"Thuck you. You thuck ( Read more... )

Just clearing my Facebook quotes. Yipee ( Read more... )

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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life . . . for fear that I should get some of his good done to me,  - some of its virus mingled with my blood.  No, - in this case I would rather suffer evil the natural way."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1

"Inspiration is highly over-rated. It is the lazy man's language. It says 'ah I don't feel anything today. I'll wait until it hits me.' It's nonsense, because the great painters and the great writers of the world were actually commissioned-- they were commercial. There's no substitute for hard work. It's a job. You get up in the morning and you go ( Read more... )

I've been reading The Complete Early Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1 (1880-82).  Chekhov is great.  Hilarious, insightful, easy to read, and possibly the most prolific author (and playwright) of the Western canon (with more than 1000 published pieces to his name, I believe).  This collection of his early work is the first time a lot of these ( Read more... )