Friday, April 6, 2012

Maybe this moment of speechlessness helped to make Daniel Baciagalupo become a writer. All those moments when you know you should speak, but you can't think of what to say -- as a writer, you can never give enough  attention to those moments.

All writers must know how to distance themselves, to detach themselves from this and that moment ...

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Some gems of wisdom from John Irving's "Last Night In Twisted River"

Monday, January 9, 2012

New Year's Resolution Reading List: 9 Books on Reading and Writing

New, old, and dead writers offer their advice for stepping up your literary game.

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/01/new-years-resolution-reading-list-9-books-on-reading-and-writing/251079/

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side.

Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I did not myself understand.

---  James Joyce, from "Araby" in "Dubliners"
Her dress swung as she moved her body and the soft rope of her hair tossed from side to side.

Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I did not myself understand.

--- James Joyce, from "Araby" in "Dubliners"