Today is the birthday of novelist and travel writer Pico Iyer, according to The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Here's one of his quotes included on Keillor's website:
"Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger."
Writing a blog really is like writing an intimate letter to a stranger. Some of you reading these postings I already know. Many of you I'll never meet in person. But through technology and the bridge of language we can connect, spark each other's creativity, and support each other on the writing path. Knowing that friends, family and strangers are reading these words has given my writing life a new energy and focus. So thanks for stopping by, for reading, for offering comments on the blog. I need you as readers, and I hope something I offer feeds you as a writer.
"Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger."
Writing a blog really is like writing an intimate letter to a stranger. Some of you reading these postings I already know. Many of you I'll never meet in person. But through technology and the bridge of language we can connect, spark each other's creativity, and support each other on the writing path. Knowing that friends, family and strangers are reading these words has given my writing life a new energy and focus. So thanks for stopping by, for reading, for offering comments on the blog. I need you as readers, and I hope something I offer feeds you as a writer.
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