The wise man is self-sufficient. – Seneca, “Letters from a Stoic” When I was in 10th grade I read for the first time passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s powerful essay “Self-Reliance.” In case you haven’t read it, or would like to read it again, you can find the entire essay …
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. – Edna St. Vincent Millay I realized recently that because I’m working on a novel …
I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro’ Gleams that untravell’d world whose margin fades For ever and forever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson, from “Ulysses” In my series on How To Write Everyday, Step 1 is Inspiration. And …
Forgetfulness, dumbness, necessity! In chains of the mind locked up, Like fetters of ice shrinking together, Disorganiz’d, rent from Eternity. William Blake, from “The Book of Urizen” We all set goals and have aspirations. I myself have written numerous posts regarding writing and how to write every …
And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee? – Acts 17:19 What is justice? The age-old question which has plagued mankind since the beginnings of civilization itself. In America today we may …
