Daily Dose

From Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live, by Peter Orner

PLOT

"Plot's got to do what plot's got to do.  But maybe that's why I've always been so wary of it.  It forces characters to do something, anything, when all they should be doing is heading home."

From Early Morning Thoughts on Ahab

Daily Dose

From Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live, by Peter Orner

NO LONG VIEW

"There is no long view.  There is no time other than this time.  Welty captures how it feels to suddenly live in a universe utterly unlike the one you lived in the day before."

From Eudora Welty, Badass