Friday, January 29, 2010

Einstein the Comedian

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
    - Albert Einstein

Humor is a well known marker of intelligence, and Einstein's humor was some of the best. Knowledge is finite? That's hilarious. After all, knowledge is the seed of imagination--limit one and limit the other.


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Rushed Writing

Rushed writing is slow work.
                       - S.R. Lundin


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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Eternal when Internal

"Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing."
   - Donald Hall

Endurance is eternal when internal, infernal when external.


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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Exercise Imagination

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to popular belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."

               - William Somerset Maugham

Like imagination, ambition weakens without exercise and, in agreement with experience, both are more active in the young than in the mature. There is your reason -- Exercise imagination now!


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Monday, January 25, 2010

Writing is Work

Writing is work without pay and a boss.
                               - S.R. Lundin

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Grammar Rejected

If text and texted, but flex and not flexted, then grammar rejected.
        - S.R. Lundin


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Thursday, January 21, 2010

Stop writing, start dying? Maybe, but it smacks of beginner's belief. So what really happens when a writer quits writing? May you never know.

                   - S.R. Lundin


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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Freedom

"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."

- Robert Frost

I played tennis without a net in Carpentaria, California. It was fun for about two minutes, but then it became a big waste of time. The challenge was to remain interested -- to keep at an activity that required no skill, lacked reward, and offered little more than pseudo exercise. Robert Frost compared writing free verse with playing tennis without a net, but the similarity is limited to a lack of confinement, not enjoyment, improvement, or time well spent.


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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Legless

A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

       - Anonymous

Worse is the crowd he runs with.


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Monday, January 18, 2010

The Public Purse

"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."

- Mark Twain

Just follow the money. The public criticizes with a purse.


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