The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
– Joyce Carol Oates
Author: bryon
haiku 515
snatching the paper
off the front porch –
winter rain
Quotable 397
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
– Salvador Dali
haiku 514
winter night
lovesick cat yowls
outside my window
Quotable 396
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
– John Steinbeck
chill morning
cardinal hops
along a low branch
Quotable 395
The purpose of fiction is to affect rather than to convince the reader. Its object is to reach him through his senses rather than through his mind. The purpose of argumentation is to convince; the purpose of description is to present a picture; the purpose of exposition is to impart knowledge, ideas, facts: but the characteristic purpose of narrative in the fictional sense in which we are taking it here is to make the reader feel.
– Thomas H. Uzzell
haiku 512
four chirps –
light snowfall
begins
Quotable 394
One reason I think I don’t get blocked is that I’m not afraid to write bad, early drafts in order to get to the good.
– Deborah Reed
haiku 511
snow cover
cloud cover
bright night