January 2019 - "If I could just have a week with nothing to do and nowhere to go, I could finally get caught up and organized"
January 2021 - in the middle of the Covid Pandemic-"Nope, that wasn't the problem..."
"We can't shut everything down because of climate change!"
"Oh really? Here's a virus - have a little practice!"
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” Saul Bellow “Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.” Lloyd Alexander "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” Aristotle "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." Donald Trump [Twitter, 6/10/12] "By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day." Robert Frost |
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.” E.L. Doctorow "This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.” Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923 "Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” Stephen King "Our five-year-old son thinks I ought to work in the local bookshop, and I can see the appeal of that." Sir Keir Starmer "I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process." Vincent Van Gogh |