If the work comes to the artist and says, “Here I am, serve me,” then the job of the artist, great or small, is to serve. The amount of the artist’s talent is not what it is about. Jean Rhys said to an interviewer in the Paris Review, “Listen to me. All of writing is [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Feeding the Lake – Madeleine L’Engle
Posted in Old Books, tagged Madeleine L'Engle, Medeleine L'Engle quotes, serving art, Walking on Water quotes, writing on May 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Patrick O’Brian: Post Captain (1972) – Quotes
Posted in Old Books, tagged Aubrey-Maturin, Aubrey-Maturin quotes, Jack Aubrey, master and commander, Naval Fiction, Patrick O'Brian quotes, patrick o'brian, Post Captain, Post Captain quotes, Stephen Maturin on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The second book in the Aubrey-Maturin series.
A quote demonstrating their differences in standards of cleanliness:
At present they were lodging in an idyllic cottage near the Heath with green shutters and honeysuckle over the door – idyllic in summer, that is to say. They were looking after themselves, living with rigid economy; and there was no [...]
Fly Away Home – by Kurt Armstrong
Posted in Oblations on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a lovely CBC Outfront podcast by writer Kurt Armstrong. (I’m a big fan of his.)
Synopsis:
Kurt Armstrong does not know how to fly. But his dad is passionate about flying. He even pilots his own small plane. So what’s their common ground? Kurt figures it out when he returns to the family farm for his [...]
G.K. Chesterton on Priests & Poets
Posted in Old Books, tagged G.K. Chesterton, Manalive, poets, priests on May 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“I don’t deny that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.”
~In G.K. Chesterton’s Manalive
