Back From Temporary Retirement.

However, I've decided that my posts will be much shorter from now on. That reduces the effort I have to put into research and writing, editing and re-editing, and it also reduces "reader fatigue". I know when I look at a blog and see inordinately long posts I immediately become turned off. So to kick the ball rolling again, some quotes about writing:

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ~Sylvia Plath

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ~Sinclair Lewis

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958

Note: This post has a July date (when I last posted), because I've edited it.

Today's date is Tuesday October 11, 2011.