Monday morning inspiration
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.” —Charles Bukowski (for this and other recent quotes,…
Monday morning inspiration
“Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.”…
How chimps mourn their dead
I was just going through some old magazines and came across a fascinating article in New Scientist – web version here. It…
Monday morning inspiration
“Writing is easy. You just sit down at the typewriter and open a vein.” —Red Smith (On reflection, not sure if this…
PLR petition
As a follow-up to my recent post about the threatened cuts to the Public Lending Right, I was happy to get an email this afternoon from the Society…
Monday morning inspiration
“I write a little every day, without hope and without despair.” —Isak Dinesen (For this quote, and a few others I’ve used…
“On Writing” by Stephen King
This is a book of two halves: part memoir, part writing advice. When I first read it, about ten years ago, I…
“Allah’s Garden” by Thomas Hollowell
This is an interesting book about a conflict that has been going for decades and yet rarely grabs the headlines. When Western…