“If you come from New England, the creeping certainty that you are a bad person is always with you.”
Sarah Payne Stuart, Perfectly Miserable
If you come from New England, you will love this book!
Category Archives: Literature
Quote of the Day 2
“The search for meaning will fill you with a sense of meaning. Otherwise life passes by in about seven weeks, and if you are not paying attention and savoring it as it unfurls, you will wake up one day in deep regret. It’s much better to wake up now in deep regret, desperate not to waste more of your life obsessing and striving for meaningless crap. Because you will have finally awakened.”
Anne Lamott, Stitches
Quote of the Day
“A truly excellent writer, though, pursues her obsessions and allows them to dictate what form her work will take. That sounds simple, but in fact it is hard for any writer to recognize what those obsessions are, to face them squarely when they are frightening or puzzling, and to shape them into persuasive works of art.”
J. Robert Lennon, reviewing Jamie Quatro’s I Want To Show You More, The New York Times Book Review
Thought of the Day
“The mind is its own place and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, A hell of heaven.”
John Milton
Which explains how Nelson Mandela could thrive in a prison, and Princess Diana could wither in a palace.
Headlines I Can’t Help But Smile At
“Author of ‘Eat Pray Love’ Got Rich But Lost All Her Friends”
Thought of the Day
If you could give up tricks and cleverness
that would be the cleverest trick!
Rumi
The Only Rule for Writing
I have read many articles and entire books on how to write, but really it all boils down to one rule, to three words — Make us care.
Some writers find it easier to make us care about their characters, others to make us care about the story. Of course the best writers succeed in making us care about both.
Thought of the Day
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.
Rumi
Thought of the Day
Once you conquer your selfish self
All your darkness will change to light
Rumi
Thought of the Day
No better love than love with no object,
no more satisfying work than work with no purpose.
Rumi
Embattled Farmers 