You are what you settle for.
—Janis Joplin
What you are…
Category: Reflections
Leonard’s Rules of Writing
If an adverb became a character in one of my books, I’d have it shot. Immediately.
—Elmore Leonard
The Paleo Life…
…times 2
Out of your depth…
Go a little out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.
— David Bowie
Getting the most from life
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R. R. Martin
The swirl and swing of words
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
—James Michener
Poisoned by emotion…
I think that to write well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice—they all make fine fuel.
—Edna Ferber
Like Breathing…
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.“
― Annie Dillard
Love…
If I put love into the work, it will find friends.
—Vincent van Gogh
Ideas are like rabbits…
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
—John Steinbeck
