Chinese fortune cookie wisdom

One of the most meaningful pieces of advice I work from comes from the quote  to “seek knowledge, even unto China. “  To me this means that every moment in every place is a source for knowledge, so inspiration often comes to me from the most unlikely places. Here’s what I found tucked inside my [...]

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Late blooming writers

This post is for everyone over 50 who thinks it’s too late to take up writing. I didn’t take it seriously until I saw my 60th  looming on the horizon and I knew if I was going to do anything interesting with this part of my life, I’d better get busy. Fast. I jumped in [...]

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Why read?

I love C.S. Lewis’s powerfully simple answer: We read to know we are not alone. We learn we are not alone in our struggle to make sense of this world. We learn that everyone throughout time struggles with various aspects of hope and despair, good and evil, love and hate, along with all the varying degrees of [...]

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Writing a book?

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out [...]

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What is humor?

Humor is… despair refusing to take itself seriously. Arland Ussher (b. 1899 – d. 1980) Anglo-Irish academic, essayist and translator.

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The right word

“A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words… the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.” Mark Twain

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Genuine humor

  “Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.” Mark Twain          

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Write what you love

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” Ray Bradbury

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When you want to talk about the infinite….

“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say “infinitely” when you mean “very”; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.” C.S. Lewis

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Solitude

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.    Tillich, Paul

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