If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become president.
– Václav Havel
Author: bryon
haiku 560
all along main street
help wanted signs
at the restaurants
Quotable 441
Writing is a craft in the way that carpentry is a craft: There’s art to it, sure, and a certain inspiration required of it, definitely, but for the most part you’re just sawing and sanding and getting dust in your eyes.
– Megan Garber
haiku 559
east of the city
smoke becomes the horizon
and the sky
Quotable 440
I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.
– Ishmael Reed
haiku 558
closer than the stars
red running light glints
off the main rotor
Quotable 439
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
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