Sunday, July 30, 2006

Writing: Solitary unconfinement.

"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." -Henry David Thoreau

Friday, July 28, 2006

Commencement.

"Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries." -Christopher Morley

I am on the threshold of beginning my very first book, a teaching novel (we hope), at the supportive behest of my friend/agent, and my mother, and the precious handful of other beloveds who believe.

This blog is the eye of the little storm I am about to generate. Not to blow up...only to blow away. So please keep checking in...and feel free to comment, if so inspired. The book is about connections...so, connect!

Thursday, July 27, 2006

We are the blessed and the damned.

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him...a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating." -Pearl S. Buck