“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
A Dickensian Experiment: one chapter at a time…..
No wonder so many people write novels now…. No wonder so few people wrote novels back then….
“Are you THE Voula?”
“Are you THE Voula?” asked a total stranger….
Hope: is it a feeling? is it a thought?
Somewhere, over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true
Arlen and Harburg
This could be the last time….
“Say always what you feel, not what you think. If I knew that today is the last time that I am going to see you asleep, I would hug you with all my strength and I would pray to the Lord to let me be the guardian angel of your soul.”
Extract from the letter of farewell of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Teaching creative writing: the elephant in the room
“The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblance.”
Aristotle (330 BC)
Honor’s Ghost: why is it taking so long?
“I took my revenge on Bill when he died. I didn’t say Rest in Peace. No peace for the wicked that’s what I said; and I meant it.” Annie Griffin in Honor’s Ghost
The Fairy Dust of Fiction
“To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from’’ Carson McCullers
Memorable reads of 2013
“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.” Khaled Hosseini
Unhappy beginnings
“And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.” Stephen King, The Dark Tower