This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that… Read more “You Put One Word After Another Until It’s Done”
Day: November 10, 2019
Being A Writer Is A Very Peculiar Sort Of Job
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often… Read more “Being A Writer Is A Very Peculiar Sort Of Job”
Fiction Allows Us To Slide Into Other Heads
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we… Read more “Fiction Allows Us To Slide Into Other Heads”
You Get Ideas All The Time
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we… Read more “You Get Ideas All The Time”
I Liked Myths
I liked myths. They weren’t adult stories and they weren’t children’s stories. They were better than that. They just were. Goodreads.com. (2019). Neil Gaiman Quotes (Author of… Read more “I Liked Myths”
Everybody Has A Secret World Inside Of Them
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull… Read more “Everybody Has A Secret World Inside Of Them”
Fairy Tales Are More Than True
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. Goodreads.com. (2019). Neil… Read more “Fairy Tales Are More Than True”
People Being Fundamentally People
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally… Read more “People Being Fundamentally People”
Adults Would Tell Me Not To Make Things Up
When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I… Read more “Adults Would Tell Me Not To Make Things Up”
A Town Isn’t A Town Without A Bookstore
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s… Read more “A Town Isn’t A Town Without A Bookstore”
Love Is Horrible
Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means… Read more “Love Is Horrible”
Most People Don’t Realize How Important Libraries Are
Most people don’t realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related… Read more “Most People Don’t Realize How Important Libraries Are”
You’re Always Changing
You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Goodreads.com. (2019). Neil Gaiman Quotes (Author of American… Read more “You’re Always Changing”
Dreams Are Real
People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories… Read more “Dreams Are Real”
Things Need Not Have Happened To Be True
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot. Goodreads.com.… Read more “Things Need Not Have Happened To Be True”
All Your Questions Can Be Answered
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them. Goodreads.com. (2019). Neil Gaiman… Read more “All Your Questions Can Be Answered”
I Lived In Books
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else. Goodreads.com. (2019). Neil Gaiman Quotes (Author of American Gods). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1221698.Neil_Gaiman [Accessed 10 Nov. 2019].
Books Make Great Gifts
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them… Read more “Books Make Great Gifts”
Make Amazing Mistakes
Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Goodreads.com. (2019). Neil… Read more “Make Amazing Mistakes”
People Are Perfectable
I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and the Beatles and Marilyn Monroe and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen – I believe that people… Read more “People Are Perfectable”
Rolando Andrés Ramos 
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