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Meandering Thoughts and Whimsical Writings
From these pages some will take anger, some will find inspiration. That is as it should be. Writing embodies the joy of discovering a soft, half-formed, malleable idea and infusing it with the scents, sounds and tangible substances that give life to intriguing characters, provocative lives and intense obsessions.
Each section contains a variety of my favorite works. They are here to delight, annoy or otherwise invoke your passion. I enjoyed writing them and hope you enjoy reading them.
The quotes on this page are the only text in Life and Lore Interwoven that are not my own. They are my reminder of why I write, especially the very last, a quote by Edward Allbee. They are offered for your encouragement -- and mine.
Place to Dream by Kathryn Andrews Fincher |
"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure." -- Henry David Thoreau
"Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style." -- Kurt Vonnegut
Strut by Nico Kern |
"In your writing, be strong, defiant, forbearing. Have a point to make and write to it. Dare to say what you want most to say, and say it as plainly as you can. Whether or not you write well, write bravely." -- Bill Stout
"Write hard and clear about what hurts." -- Ernest Hemingway
"Always grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, sink your thumbs into his windpipe in the second, and hold him against the wall until the tag line." -- Paul O'Neil
"Genius in fact involves sufficient energy and passion to question assumptions that have been taken for granted over long periods." -- David Bohm
Romantic Reflections (Le) by Willem Haenraets |
"The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small lamp would be snuffed out, but a big fire will engulf what is thrown at it and burn hotter; it consumes the obstacle and uses it to reach a higher level." -- Marcus Aurelius
"The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." -- James Joyce
by Marie Laurencin |
"Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in." -- Robert Frost
"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
"No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ...unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized." -- Blaise Pascal
"Magic has often been thought of as the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it." -- Starhawk
 Morning Fresh by C.L. Goldrick |
"The turquoise horse prances with me. From where we start, the turquoise horse is seen. The lightning flashes from the turquoise horse. The turquoise horse is terrifying. He stands on the upper circle of the rainbow. The sunbeam is in his mouth for a bridle. He circles around all the people of the earth with their goods. Today he is on my side. And I shall win with him."
~from the legend of the Navajo White Bead Woman who transformed stone fetishes into horses.
Racing with the Moon by Jacqueline Penney |
"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind." -- Vita Sackville-West
Cupids Garden by John William Waterhouse |
"There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft." -- Jessamyn West
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug." -- Mark Twain
"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences." -- Andre Gide
"I write to find out what I'm talking about." -- Edward Albee
