Writing and Creating Books
Orson Scott Card: On Writing
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any. The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will […]
Books Give a Soul to the Universe
Books give a soul to the universe. Books give wings to the mind. Books give flight to the imagination. Book give life to everything! Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything — attributed to Plato, but probably not accurate. I doubt that Plato […]
A Murder of Crows Wordplay
I love this image: Attempted Murder. It’s funny word play! If you know anything about the names for groups of animals, you know that a group of crows is called a murder of crows. And you have to have at least three crows to make a murder. Want to be somebody? Write a book. And then […]
Steve Jobs: On Creativity
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it. They just saw something. — Steve Jobs, co-founder, Apple Computer Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because […]