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Category Archives: Writing
Wise Words: Chinese Proverb: learning
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Wise Words: Susanne Langer
If we would have new knowledge, we must get us a whole world of new questions.
Wise Words: Crowfoot
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Wise Words: George S. Patton
Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Wise Words: Amy Hempel
It comes back to the question, whom are you writing for? Who are the readers you want? Who are the people you want to engage with the things that matter most to you? And for me, it’s people who don’t need it all spelled out because they know it, they understand it. That’s why there’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, “Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.”
Wise Words: Mark Abley
Modern English is the Walmart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.
Wise Words: Wilson Mizner
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, he gets to know something.
Wise Words: Voltaire: fire
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Wise Words: George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
You are never too old to be what you might have been.
