Posts tagged “writing”
Anna Sofia DiFolco Albanese
A biography I wrote in college about my grandmother, who would have turned 97 today
It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
Barbara Kingsolver
a thousand thousand slimy things
He had a habit of starting enormous projects that he could not then finish.
Happy Birthday, James
On James Joyce
Happy Birthday, W. Somerset Maugham
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham, January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965