Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

I wonder what Mr. Einstein had to say about TV...

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."-Albert Einstein(1879-1955)...I find that drastically decreasing my television viewing and replacing it with reading... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 9, 2004

I have been thinking a lot about faith versus fear...

...and this quote is a wonderful take on the choices we all have to make as we put one foot in front of the other day after day. "Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."-Henry Ward Beecher Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 8, 2004

STUCK! A few words on writer's block...

"You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word."-Gustave Flaubert My favorite fountain pen had fallen out of my purse and under the front wheel of the car when the kids and I got home last night. I am so glad... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 7, 2004

There are writers whose prose reads like poetry....

"Always be a poet, even in prose."-Charles Baudelaire One of my favorite children's authors writes novels that read like poetry---The author is Gary Paulsen, and for me the book that unfolds most like an incredibly rich poem is The Winter Room. Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 6, 2004

...time away from the world to be a writer...

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made." Gore Vidal Usually the phrase 'time away from the world' brings up images of a mountain retreat for days and weeks of solitude. Or an escape to a seaside... Sign in to see full entry.

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