The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
From Annie Dillard
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Write as if you were dying.
The writer studies literature, not the world.
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
4 perspectives
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives