Being a writer is understanding how you can love your book, be willing to die for every word, think it’s perfect and yet at the same time wonder how far you’d have to fling your book into the sea so that the tide doesn’t drag it back.
– Meredith Ireland
Month: February 2022
haiku 557
cat-sitting –
one cat no longer
falls for treat trick
Quotable 438
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
– Jackie Collins
haiku 556
beneath the streetlight’s
purple gleam
the snow deepens
Quotable 437
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
– Tom Clancy
haiku 555
January 31
neighbors’ Christmas lights
greet the dawn
Quotable 436
Good fiction often takes the banal around us and defamiliarizes it.
– Edmund White
haiku 554
lazy afternoon –
cat watches
zoo program