cemetery –
dates on gravestones
too close together
Author: bryon
Quotable 310
As you grow older you realize that there are bad lines in King Lear and it has survived.
– Robert Gottlieb
haiku 427
red-flag warning –
sounds from the roof
that shouldn’t be there
Quotable 309
I’ve been working for 25 years now and I can probably bring near enough any story to a satisfactory resolution just because I’ve been doing this every day for 25 years – you get more confident in your ability to bring a story home. So you can ride bareback, and take more risks. That is something I have a great deal of fun with.
– Alan Moore
haiku 426
late evening
two grandfather clocks
one ticks, one tocks
Quotable 308
The most helpful quality a writer can cultivate is self-confidence – arrogance, if you can manage it. You write to impose yourself on the world, and you have to believe in your own ability when the world shows no sign of agreeing with you.
– Hilary Mantel
haiku 425
sleepless –
thunder hides
morning sun
Quotable 307
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words everybody needs an editor.
– Michael Crichton
haiku 424
pretty girl eyes me –
later I see
I have hat hair
Quotable 306
You don’t know what you’re going to write until you start, and you can’t start until you know.
– Tom Stoppard