Quotation – July 27, 2017 #2

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.

Albert Einstein

Apple blossoms

Quotation – July 27, 2017

Writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover’s quarrel with the world. It’s ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don’t have to worry about learning things. The fire of one’s art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it.

James Lee Burke

Quotation – July 26, 2017

The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like painting by the numbers, they often remain stick figures. They will never take on a life of their own. The most exciting thing is when you find a character doing something surprising or unplanned. Like a character saying to me: ‘Hey Richard, you may think I work for you, but I don’t. I’m my own person.

Richard North Patterson

AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE

Quotation – July 18, 2017

“Don’t you worry, and don’t you hurry.”
I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.

Mark Twain

ALIEN INNKEEPER

Quotation – July 16, 2017

Truth is mighty and will prevail.
There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain’t so.

Mark Twain

ALIEN INNKEEPER

Quotation – July 12, 2017

When I start on a book, I have been thinking about it and making occasional notes for some time–20 years in the case of “Imperial Earth”, and 10 years in the case of the novel I’m presently working on. So I have lots of theme, locale, subjects and technical ideas. It’s amazing how the subconscious self works on these things. I don’t worry about long periods of not doing anything. I know my subconscious is busy.

Arthur C. Clarke

AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE

Quotation – July 7, 2017

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s voice, another’s soul.

Joyce Carol Oates

Peony

Quotation – July 5, 2017

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Albert Einstein

AN ALIEN PERSPECTIVE

Quotation #2 – July 3, 2017

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

James Michener

SACRED TRUST

Quotation – July 3, 2017

The conclusion to be drawn is that I am happiest writing in small rooms. They make me feel comfortable and secure. And it took me years to figure out that I need to write in a corner. Like a small animal burrowing into its hole, I shift furniture around, and back myself into a cozy corner, with my back to the wall…and then I can write.

Danielle Steel

REVOLUTIONS