People talk about mainstream fiction and sf as though they were two quite different kinds of writing, and fantasy as well, as though it was quite different. But I think this a false distinction, that it is a labelling that helps librarians, and peopl...
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between...I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate...
How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning ...
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
Golden bars make no less a prison than a coffin on a hill. And in caged reformation, one wanders aimless still. The rafters now a recollection of sacred suppression. How the morning dawn strikes mourning confession. Now Death yields a harvest of the ...
I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal.
Journal writing Helps Us Heal. That's one of the therapeutic methods to helping us cope with hardship or painful situations in our lives. Writing in a journal allows us to make sense of things and also helps us to let go of some things. It’s a way ...
If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.
Serious journalism need not be solemn.
If I wasn't an actor, I'd probably be working in journalism.
I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.
I expected to go into journalism or law.
Journalism is a Darwinian process.
Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.
Journalism is an act of faith in the future
A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.
No one - can be you
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
I was an angst-y journal writing kid.
