The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
– Emile Zola
Tag: gift
haiku 408
steakhouse party –
birthday boy gets skateboard
for carryout
haiku 256
thinking as I shop
“I could get that for her” –
old habits…
Quotable 126
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master.
– Charlotte Brontë
Quotable 87
I now think of writing as a privilege – as a gift that’s been given to me. Any day that I don’t get to write something – anything – is a day I have to spend being someone other than who I am.
– Larry Gelbart