Posts tagged reading
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing." - Benjamin Franklin
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
So excited that this is making its way to me right now.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins. It has no job security of any kind, and depends mostly on whether or not you can, like Scheherazade, tell the stories each night that’ll keep you alive until tomorrow. There are undoubtedly hundreds of easier, less stressful, more straightforward jobs in the world. Personally, I can’t think of anything else I’d rather do, but that’s me.
Give someone a book for the holidays! This is my top pick for the little people in your life: Stuck, by Oliver Jeffers.
I was recently given book one of the Wildwood Chronicles by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis, and I can’t wait to begin reading it. Have you ever seen a more beautiful cover?
