A good story

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:




This is a great speech, btw. If you want to read the full text, you can find it here.


And I love this image. It's so sensual, and so much lighter than I've come to associate with Rembrandt.


Erratum: This quote:

"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork."

was of course not said by Pieter de Vries, but by Peter De Vries.

Comments

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

Another thing Jane Yolen said in an issue of The Writer (way back when I was starting out and that was still a good magazine) was that storytelling was (paraphrase) "Our oldest and best method of casting out demons and summoning angels." That's stuck with me over the years, and I still think it's true.

[pjthompson]

Yes! What a wonderful way of putting it.