The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson 2,503 total views, no views today
Month: May 2016
You write. That’s the hard bit that nobody sees. You write on the good days, and you write on the lousy days. Like a shark, you have to keep moving forward or you die. 36,230 total views, 6 views today
If you want to be somewhere, you only have two choices: Here and Elsewhere. That’s just physics. 2,816 total views, no views today
(Tolstoy) was always revising, right down to the time of page proofs. He went through and rewrote “War and Peace” eight times and was still making corrections in the galleys. Things like this should hearten every writer whose first drafts are dreadful, like mine are. – Raymond Carver 3,054 total views, 3 views today
