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A couple of things reaped in the night. Both from the always interesting and at times even amazing Jonathan Carroll blog.
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
- Jose Saramago
[Saramago's variant of the 'Writers, write.' maxim.]
I had a strange conversation the other day with a writer who said something that has stuck in my mind ever since. He asked if I ever thought about people who died who had read my books while they were alive. I looked to see if he was serious and he plainly was. No, I never thought about that, I answered half-skeptically.
Well then consider this (he said): If there IS an Afterlife then they took your stories with them. In other words, your work is OVER THERE now. Maybe that will have some kind of effect.
On who?
Who knows? You? Your life? What will happen to you after you die...
And then he changed the topic.
- CarrollBlog 11.8
The first one is truer than true, though, after reading yet another disposable autobiography [not by choice] I'm grateful not everybody does it.
The second quote? It's food for thought, isn't it? Think about it, my fellow scribe... All those hours of dedication, all those hours obsessing about the perfect word [What? Only I do that?!] could literally [no pun intended] change things over there.
It's time for the rest of the world to wake up and it is finally Friday - always a good thing.
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.
- Jose Saramago
[Saramago's variant of the 'Writers, write.' maxim.]
I had a strange conversation the other day with a writer who said something that has stuck in my mind ever since. He asked if I ever thought about people who died who had read my books while they were alive. I looked to see if he was serious and he plainly was. No, I never thought about that, I answered half-skeptically.
Well then consider this (he said): If there IS an Afterlife then they took your stories with them. In other words, your work is OVER THERE now. Maybe that will have some kind of effect.
On who?
Who knows? You? Your life? What will happen to you after you die...
And then he changed the topic.
- CarrollBlog 11.8
The first one is truer than true, though, after reading yet another disposable autobiography [not by choice] I'm grateful not everybody does it.
The second quote? It's food for thought, isn't it? Think about it, my fellow scribe... All those hours of dedication, all those hours obsessing about the perfect word [What? Only I do that?!] could literally [no pun intended] change things over there.
It's time for the rest of the world to wake up and it is finally Friday - always a good thing.
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