More on the love theme for Valentine's Day, this time from Louise Erdrich: You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are …
A Love Quote from Jane Austen
Looking forward to Valentine's Day Tuesday, how about a love quote from no less than Jane Austen? “There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my …
Sylvia Plath, Remembered
I expect I could fill a whole year of quotes with Sylvia Plath. And this despite the fact that her life was so short, ending at age 30 by suicide on this day in …
Yet More Writing Wisdom from Plath
More writing wisdom from Sylvia Plath today: “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over …
Sylvia Plath on Rejection Slips
For many years, I kept my rejection slips, although I couldn't have told you why. When I came across today's quote -- again from Sylvia Plath -- it made …
Writing Wisdom from Sylvia Plath
“I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still” -Sylvia Plath …
More Wisdom from Sylvia Plath
“Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.” - Sylvia Plath …
The Wisdom of Sylvia Plath
Fair warning: I'm a Sylvia Plath fan and have been since I was in middle school. Today's quote, from her: Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.” …
Lock Up Your Libraries
From Virginia Woolf: Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ? Virginia Woolf, …
Alice McDermott on the Perils of Publishing
I'm offering today's quote, from one of the contemporary writers I most admire, in a shorter and longer version. The shorter version is funny, and the longer of …
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