Happy Diwali - Wishing you peace, prosperity, and happiness:

Bringing light to all dark places...

Kurt Cobain, on inspiration:

Thank you for the tragedy.

I need it for my art.

- Kurt Cobain.

Author humor.... the Twilight version:

 

Geraldine Brooks, on writing:

I swim in a sea of words.

They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

– Geraldine Brooks.

Theodore Roosevelt, on books:

There are rainy days in autumn and storm days in winter

when the rocking chair in front of the fire

simply demands an accompanying book.

- Theodore Roosevelt.

National Cat Day – October 29

Happy National Cat Day!

Toni Morrison on writing:

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning,

it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic …

Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways,

learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies,

reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

- Toni Morrison.