I found this quote on a website this morning:
Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.
Harper Lee
Archive for May, 2006
Countdown to Harper Lee – Daily Quote
Friday, May 5th, 2006Countdown to Harper Lee – Daily Quote
Thursday, May 4th, 2006Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
More Shameless Self Promotion
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006I added an essay, “The Light of Earindel’s Star” to the My Writing section of the parent site. If you’re interested, you can read it here.
My plan is to submit it to a writing contest later this month. We’ll see how it goes.
Countdown to Harper Lee – Daily Quote
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006Another way [young writers] fool themselves is when they study to be writers. They are training themselves, in colleges, to be writers. . . .
[W]riting is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.”
Harper Lee, from an interview with Roy Newquist, published in Counterpoint (1964).
Shameless Self Promotion
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006Spent the morning building the parent site. I’ve developed the My Writing section and added a short story of mine, “A Winter Evening.”
If your interested, you can read the story here.
Countdown to Harper Lee – Daily Quote
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006It’s just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good one.
Harper Lee, from an interview with Roy Newquist, published in Counterpoint (1964).
Harper Lee is Coming
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006Monday, May 8, 2006, will feature a page dedicated to Harper Lee on the parent site. You will find the page in the People section and it will include a personal essay by The Fisherman, excerpts from the only two known interviews with Ms. Lee, a bibliography and a brief biography.
In the meantime, we’ll feature a daily quote from Harper Lee here on this blog.
Top Ten Writers Denied The Nobel Prize
Monday, May 1st, 2006Consider, for a moment, the top ten writers of world literature who should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature but were not.
Criteria:
First, the author must have been alive and publishing when the prize was presented (no William Shakespeare).
Second, the author must have produced more than one work (no Harper Lee).
Third, I’ve tried to eliminate those authors that might still win the prize (Chinese author Mo Yan, for example).
First awarded in 1901, there have been 102 Nobel Prize Laureates with no award given in the years 1914, 1918, 1935, and between 1940-1943. Click here for a complete list of the Laureates and to learn more about the Nobel Prize.
Click the link below to see the list. (Feel free to comment, criticize, or suggest your own authors.)
Oh no! Numbered Lists Are Here!
Monday, May 1st, 2006Someone suggested I include numbered lists in my blog. People like numbered lists! she assured me.
We live in an age of numbered lists. Seven tips on dealing with allergies. Ten reasons why the ‘80s were great! Five ways to balance your budget.
Frankly, I dislike numbered lists. My dislike goes back to Composition 101 where I was taught that using numbers in an essay is a sign of weak writing, a crutch for the intellectually disorganized. Numbers hold the reader’s interest by force, rather than seduction. A truly talented writer, I was taught, can present his information logically and creatively without having to rely on numbers.
Not so today. We are awash in a sea of information and we want that information served up in bite-sized pieces that can be sucked down and digested faster than an Egg McMuffin.
So—for those who don’t have the time to make or even eat breakfast, I’m adding Top Ten Lists to my blog. Let’s just say it’s an experiment in the convenient, and maybe as much for me as anyone else.