On writing
How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
--- Gaston Bachelard
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
--- Miguel de Cervantes
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.
--- Joan Didion
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
--- Mark Twain
John Linker
Watermelons
Green Buddhas
On the fruit stand.
We eat the smile
and spit out the teeth.
-- Charles Simic
Only begin and the mind grows heated;
Only begin and the task will be completed.
On Reading
We read to know that we are not alone.
--- C S Lewis
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
--- Groucho Marx
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
--- Voltaire
