I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
– Tom Clancy
Author: bryon
haiku 555
January 31
neighbors’ Christmas lights
greet the dawn
Quotable 436
Good fiction often takes the banal around us and defamiliarizes it.
– Edmund White
haiku 554
lazy afternoon –
cat watches
zoo program
Quotable 435
Remind yourself, every day, that you’re doing this to try to find something out about yourself, about the world, about words and how they fit together. Writing is investigation. Just keep seeking.
– Naomi Alderman
haiku 553
cold front arrives –
wind flicks something loose
against my window
Quotable 434
You can’t wait for inspiration because it may never come.
– Erskin Caldwell
haiku 552
strong north wind
inflatable penguin
bobs stiffly
Quotable 433
The true influence of a great novel is to say to a subsequent novelist, Go thou and do otherwise.
– Julian Barnes
haiku 551
new year –
neighbor’s firework
explodes on the dot