After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.
Maybe all crows were just creepy.
Darkness, true darkness, is something more than lack of light.
I would love to say how nice it is to see you again, but that would be a lie. And I am nothing if not honest.
When we were together, she turned me completely inside out.
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.
Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.
Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking. . . . I am tempted to believe that much of the mischief thus laid at the door of that poor unknown quantity Thinking is really due to its ubiquitous twin-brother Talking.