Writing and Creating Books
Tom Stoppard: Words Are Sacred
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little. — Tom Stoppard, playwright and screenwriter That’s the power that writers have: To nudge the world a little. To make a difference. To make the world a little more sacred and holy. […]
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 […]