When do you let the cat out of the bag? In the beginning I didn’t tell anyone I was writing a book. I thought it sounded rather pompous, and of course, I didn’t know if I had the guts to sustain it, but I kept hacking away, in the dead of night for going on 3 years. Whatever [...]
Posts Tagged ‘solitude’
Admitting my love affair (with writing)
Posted in Late Blooming Writers, writers, Writing, tagged blogging, books, curiosity, Kate DiCamillo, life, solitude, something to live for, thoughts, words, writers, Writing on April 13, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Why read?
Posted in reading, tagged books, C.S. Lewis, language, libraries, life, loneliness, quotes, ray bradbury, reading, solitude, thoughts, words, writers, Writing on January 2, 2010 | 10 Comments »
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 [...]
Solitude
Posted in Quotations, tagged language, loneliness, quotes, solitude on May 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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
