“Tell me, Fenster, how is being a ghost working out for you?” “Well, Tom, not so great, actually. I’m barely eeking out a living.”
Author: bryon
Quotable 147
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
– Augusten Burroughs
haiku 259
in my mind
we are all
still so young
#quikfic 46
Spring and its storms came. But the ghosts went silent and troubled us no more as we exchanged our weary thoughts for the garden.
Quotable 146
All writing is a journey. You take the reader by the hand and you lead him somewhere. And you want to make sure he never lets go of your hand.
– Roger Ebert
haiku 258
veterinarian’s –
she leaves
with a box and tears
#quikfic 45
He dumped the roach out of his mug and poured in fresh coffee. “Fifteen years in this damned job, it’s way too late to get picky.”
Quotable 145
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
– Ernest Hemingway
haiku 257
early spring day –
train rolls across
rust-streaked bridge
#quikfic 44
When he lowered the tray in front of him, Bob found a note: “Sorry about what my baby did to your seat on the previous flight.”