Interesting quotes by Alice Flaherty (Midnight Disease) and my responses
Lewis Carroll wrote 98,721 letters in his life time (almost as many monthly texts as the average teen).
Highly productive would-be authors fill file drawers with unpublishable trash (she’s been snooping in my home office).
The drive to write produces a first draft; it is the drive to write well that produces the second, third, twentieth (would that more authors had the drive to write well).
If you don’t like the first or second doctor, see another. If you don’t like the fifth, though, it just might be you that is in trouble (words of genuine wisdom).
Queen Anne said admiringly of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, “How awful, artificial, and amusing” meaning awe-full, artful, and inspired by the muse (today she’d say, “How dope”).
Creativity is defined as novelty and value (my baked salmon is valuable but not novel; my made-from-scratch green smoothies are novel but lack value. I’ve yet to cook a creative meal).
Déjà vu, jamais vu—the feeling of never having seen something which is in fact familiar (like seeing my high school annual photos).
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “I don’t want to be a doctor and live by men’s diseases; nor a minister to live by their sins; nor a lawyer to live by their quarrels. So I don’t see there’s anything left for me but to be an author” (ouch! he just eliminated my callings as therapist, pastor, mediator).
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