Excellence in the Art of Living

Excellence in the Art of Living

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play, her labor and her leisure, her mind and her body, her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through...
The Lamb Perspective

The Lamb Perspective

Charles Lamb, on being criticized for being late to work, replied, “But have you noticed I always leave early?”

Empathy, Not Experience

“Writers don’t write from experience, though many are resistant to admit that they don’t. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” — Nikki...
What I’m Doing

What I’m Doing

I’m writing a novel. Actually, I finished writing this novel quite some time ago. Now I’m revising. The work of revising seems to take everything out of me, which is why I seldom show up on this blog. Between writing and revising, thinking about the...

Revision

“Only death, his own, should prevent a playwright from considering yet one more revision to his script.” — Oscar Wilde