The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Nov29
Monday Morning Wisdom #338
Category Archives: Monday Morning Wisdom
Nov22
Monday Morning Wisdom #337
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.
~ Mark Twain
Nov15
Monday Morning Wisdom #336
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Nov8
Monday Morning Wisdom #335
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
~ Will Shetterly
Nov1
Monday Morning Wisdom #334
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
~George Orwell
Oct25
Monday Morning Wisdom #333
Writing is a dangerous profession. There is no telling what hole you may rip in society’s carefully woven master narrative.
~Danielle Orner
Oct18
Monday Morning Wisdom #332
Creation is bringing something new into existence. Formula is re-creation of what has been. Through a repetitive series of steps, it seeks to gain similar results by duplicating what’s worked in the past.That’s great for a muffin mix. Not for creating something original.
~Allen Arnold, on Facebook at The Story of With
Oct11
Monday Morning Wisdom #331
Joy is the gift of love. Grief is the price of love. Anger protects that which is loved. And when we think we have reached our limit, wonder is the act that returns us to love.
~Valarie Kaur, in See No Stranger
Oct4
Monday Morning Wisdom #330
Create to connect to those who need you.
~ Amie McNee
Sep27
Monday Morning Wisdom #329
Home is not where you were born. Home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
~ Omar Taher
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