Steve Olsher’s book, What is your What? has the subtitle, Discover the ONE Amazing Thing You were Born to do. I’m preparing an online course in which one topic is to discover your purpose (inspired by Vrinda Norman at her live event in San Francisco last weekend). I bought the book What is Your What? […]
Johnny Depp Quotes
Johnny Depp is in a new movie called Black Mass. He is best known for playing Jack Sparrow, the pirate Captain. I became a fan when I saw the 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands. “I realized that Edward was all alone, and inside of all of us is this lonely little kid. Edward is a total […]
3 Days 3 Quotes Challenge – Day 1
Thanks to author Erika Kind from Liechtenstein, I’ve accepted her invitation to the 3 Day 3 Quotes Challenge. Here’s my quote for Day 1 followed by the challenge information for nominees to participate. “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” by John Steinbeck I discovered this quote in Anne Ayers Koch’s book, Look Both […]
John Keats, English Romatic Poet
“I have met with women who I really think would like to be married to a poem, and to be given away by a novel.” “I wish to believe in immortality — I wish to live with you forever.” “There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.” “The air I breathe in a room empty of […]
Quotes and Words
“The boundaries of our world shift under out feet and we tremble while waiting to see whether any new form will take the place of the lost boundary or whether we can create out of this chaos some new order.” Rollo May “I write to find out what I’m talking about.” Edward Albee “I let […]
Novel Writing Quotes
Gene Wolfe said, “You never learn how to write a novel. You only learn to write the novel you’re on.” “The protagonist is the character whose fate matters most to the story.” Stephen Koch
Quotes by Writer Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch, an Irish-born British author and philosopher, was born July 15, 1919 and died February 8, 1999 at age 79. She ranked twelfth on a list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.” She wrote 26 novels and followed the tradition of novelists like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, George Elliot, and Proust. Murdoch was married […]