The act of a pro is to make it look easy. Fred Astaire doesn’t grunt when he dances to let you know how hard it is. If you’re good at it, you leave no fingerprints.
– Lillian Ross
Month: March 2022
haiku 562
blue night light
the color of
burning propane
Quotable 443
Go to where the silence is and say something.
– Amy Goodman
haiku 561
cat pee on floor –
don’t ask me
how I know
Quotable 442
If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become president.
– Václav Havel
haiku 560
all along main street
help wanted signs
at the restaurants
Quotable 441
Writing is a craft in the way that carpentry is a craft: There’s art to it, sure, and a certain inspiration required of it, definitely, but for the most part you’re just sawing and sanding and getting dust in your eyes.
– Megan Garber
haiku 559
east of the city
smoke becomes the horizon
and the sky
Quotable 440
I read Dante and realized how much power a writer could have. A writer could put people in hell who weren’t even dead yet.
– Ishmael Reed
haiku 558
closer than the stars
red running light glints
off the main rotor