Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Monday, December 11, 2006

This is a quote for all the skeptics who might question blogging...

...and whether or not bloggers are writers who will amount to anything as writers... "Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."-Cicero(106BC-43BC) Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 1, 2006

A fun quote for the holiday season....

Shopping becomes a contact sport of sorts this time of year. The push and shove and physicality of managing the crowded malls makes making gift choices of secondary concern at times....here is a bit of advice about the 'choice' part of the process.... "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 30, 2006

...time away from the world to be a writer...

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made." Gore Vidal Usually the phrase 'time away from the world' brings up images of a mountain retreat for days and weeks of solitude. Or an escape to a seaside... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

A fun quote for the holiday season....

Shopping becomes a contact sport of sorts this time of year. The push and shove and physicality of managing the crowded malls makes making gift choices of secondary concern at times....here is a bit of advice about the 'choice' part of the process.... "Do give books - religious or otherwise - for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 27, 2006

I don't think I will ever master the art of indifference....

...not that I really want too. I agree with Mr. Joyce that the artist/writer is interwoven with his or her work in a way that is intrinsic and inextricable. Yet I am not sure that the writer is inherently indifferent....And many of us believe that God is everything but indifferent! "The artist, like... Sign in to see full entry.

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