“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean.” ~ Anne Carson

"Writing is a continuation. We take one breath after another, one step after another, always one step away from something, one word closer to something we don’t yet know." ~ @marciaaldrich.bsky.social

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” ~ Wendell Berry

Rose Metal is the best press imaginable, both rose-colored and golden.

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood. ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat

"The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it." ~ Alexander Calder

"...anything that is art . . . is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.” ~ Edward Gorey

Thanks you so much s w i f t s.

"What I write is smarter than I am, because I can re-write it." ~ Susan Sontag

"I write with soft pencils because you get to spend more time sharpening the pencil, which is easier and more fun than writing." ~ Stephen Sondheim

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth." ~ Edna Ferber

"We are biologically wired to identify patterns, connections, and cause and effect-in other words, to tell ourselves stories. It's how we have survived." ~ David Kessler

"Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second... Each one visits a thousand flowers a day. They can dive at sixty miles an hour. They can fly backwards. They can fly more than five hundred miles without pausing to rest." ~ Brian Doyle

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow." ~ Alice Walker

"I am a writer and my faith in the world of art is intense but not irrational or naïve. Art invites us to take the journey beyond price, beyond costs into bearing witness to the world as it is and as it should be." ~ Toni Morrison

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control. Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise." ~ Julia Cameron

"Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?" ~ Anne Lamott