Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“I am trying to show the world we are all human beings, that color is not important, that what is important is the quality of our work, of a culture in which the young are not afraid to take chances and can hold onto their values and self-esteem, especially in the arts and in dance. That’s what it’s all about to me.”

—Alvin Ailey, AlvinAiley.org



Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Random quote of the day:

“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”

—John W. Gardner, “The Ever-Renewing Society,” Saturday Review, No. 46, 1963

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Lucy and Ethel, Justin Bieber, or the Kardashian Klan. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Get it all down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that’s the only was you can do anything really good.”

—William Faulkner, quoted in Malcolm Cowley, The Faulkner-Cowley File

 

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”

—Alan Cohen, Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risks to Follow Your Bliss

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Quotes of the day:

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

—Ray Bradbury


Love this one. He also said one of my favorite quotes about risk-taking and the creative act:

"Throw yourself off a cliff and build your wings on the way down."

He apparently liked that quote, too, for when giving speeches over the years he used several variants:

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”

“Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.”

"First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down."


I think I prefer the simplicity of the first one. Or maybe I just like that one better because it was the first variant I heard and because it was quoted to me by my departed friend, Stephan. It has become something of a mantra for me in my creative process, anyway.

Writingness of the day:

It's official. I'm going to do another rewrite of Shivery Bones before sending out my next batch of agent queries, see if I can cut 20k. There are a number of things killing me on that book, I suspect, but surely the 143k length is one of them.


SURVEY (as opposed to Monday poll):

How many of you read Evil Editor?