The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.
See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.
I grew up in the 70s, when people talked on the phone - and just talked more. I remember the phone was the epicenter of our house. I spent hours every evening as a teenager waiting for the phone to ring and talking to my friends. Before the age of technology, it was also easier to just disappear from the face of the earth.
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.
Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.
I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I am at certain things. But other things, I can't do at all. I can't draw.
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.