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"

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/

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"

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the
people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in
parantheses. -- John Irving, "The Cider House Rules"

She stretched out on her back on the thin bed, as if she were a
little girl waiting to be tucked in and kissed good night in a foreign
country. -- John Irving, "The Cider House Rules"

Motorcycle Zen

"On a cycle, the frame is gone. You're completely in contact with it all. You're in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming."


---  Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"