Pigeon-feeding inflation
The cost of feeding the birds has gone up a lot. It only cost Mary Poppins tuppence a bag, but in Trafalgar Square today it’ll cost you £500, according to an aggressively-worded sign that confronted me as I left the…
Monday morning inspiration
Minds are like parachutes. They work best when open. –Thomas Dewar
How not to check email
I use Gmail for my personal email, and recently installed a new feature called “Priority Inbox”, which automatically sorts out your important email and puts it at the top of your screen, while leaving the less important stuff lower down.…
Monday morning inspiration
“The author’s task is to synchronize thoughts, images, raw creative material in a meaningful way, a task as difficult and frantic and joyful as herding cats.” —Brandon Dorn
Monday morning inspiration
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” —Georgia O’Keefe (via Crazyhorse Journal)
Monday morning inspiration
“Everything I learned about human nature I learned from me.” —Chekhov (via Crazyhorse Journal)
Life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda
Came across a good little article in the LA Times on author self-promotion. It seems that a letter from Jack Kerouac has just turned up at a literary auction, and it bears an interesting quote: I can just see the…
Monday morning inspiration
“I believe in words. I believe that words are little gods. I believe that books are bibles.” —Marcel Pomerlo (via Crazyhorse Journal)
Monday morning inspiration
“Truth is not an unveiling which destroys the secret, but a revelation that does it justice.” —Walter Benjamin (via Crazyhorse Journal)