When I start I am in a total limbo. I don’t have any idea where the story is going or what is going to happen.
– Isabel Allende
Author: bryon
haiku 520
checking for mail –
cold concrete
under my socks
Quotable 402
Writing, along with fire-making and the invention of the wheel, is widely held to be a milestone of human progress. This view will seem naïve to anybody who has read much human writing. … The true wellspring of civilization isn’t writing; it is editing.
– Nathan Heller
haiku 519
beneath the
gas station canopy
dawn breaks
Quotable 401
I think that being a novelist means you defend human values by writing novels.
– Alaa Al Aswany
haiku 518
parking lot –
tiny raindrops
cover windshield
Quotable 400
Every writer is an iron-monger that melts down old junk into new steel.
– Austin O’Malley
haiku 517
gray day –
bookstore pug
naps in his nook
Quotable 399
Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be tired. Be confused. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.
– William Zinsser
haiku 516
trying to sleep –
passing truck rumbles
like thunder