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Raymond Chandler was a brilliant noir writer, and a cat fancier through and through. Here’s a quote of his that’s a favorite of mine: “I decided I could lose nothing by the soft approach. If that didn’t produce for me—and I didn’t think it would—nature could take its course and we could bust up the furniture.”– The Lady In The …
“Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way. Time means power for your work. Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.” ~ Amelia Barr, …
Poet Diane Ackerman on reinventing yourself: “Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow. Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? Flora or fauna, we are all shapeshifters and magical reinventors. Life is really a plural noun, a caravan of selves.” Source: Cultivating Delight
I’ve been blessed in my daily walks with inspiration and a repair of my spirit. This quote from Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, really speaks to me. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature…the assurance …
In a recent workshop, Larissa Fasthorse said she began writing plays as a way to change the world. Of course that is quixotic, but in a way, I agree. “I definitely write from a need to try, in my own two hours, to right a wrong. My little play is inconsequential in terms of whether or not we have health …
Artist Lorna Simpson discussing her use of text with photographs: “I started to concentrate more upon how the viewer looks at photographs… I would insert my own text or my own specific reading of the image to give the viewer something they might not interpret or surmise, due to their ‘educated’ way of looking at images, and reading them for …
Poet David Whyte on personal power and writing: “Every action taken, from the moment we switch off the alarm clock in the morning to the way we write a line of poetry or design a product, has the potential to change the world, leave it cold with indifference, or perhaps more commonly, nudge it infinitesimally in the direction of good …
“It’s not so terrible a feeling, aloneness, or it’s so terrible it’s mind-blowing. I’ve never felt so present as I do now, every second on the brink of life and death. No sense of space or scale. I picture myself as a tiny person teetering on the rim of a glass of milk. (I don’t know why milk, I don’t …
Noted Pulitzer and Tony Award winning playwright Edward Albee knew well the issue of having aspirations loftier than one’s talent. He said, “Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn’t so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you’ll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.”― Edward Albee
I’m writing a play that deals with the themes of mercy and forgiveness. I’ve been researching ideas and quotations about forgiveness, and this one from Rita Mae Brown is particularly pertinent. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”― Rita Mae Brown