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Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all Continue reading Another Great Mark Twain Quote
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself Continue reading Catching the Changes of Your Mind
For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unploughed ground. Lyndon Johnson
“The first 5. 1. Write every day.2. Observe and listen.3. Employ all of the senses.4. Use strong verbs.5. Detail.” Oakley Hall from How Fiction Works Proven Secrets to Writing Successful Stories that Hook Readers and Sell
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man or the young woman must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until Continue reading Patience, Insight, Curiosity
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast . . . a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic.Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight Continue reading Run The Rivers, Ramble Out Yonder, Explore
“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.” Hal Boyle I’m taking a river hiatus Continue reading River Hiatus
“It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.”Gerald Brenan This morning I sat down and wrote 2 pages pretty much effortlessly. Is it like that every morning? No. But I sit down every morning Continue reading Becoming A Writer