Bryant A. Loney's Blog: BryantLoney.tumblr.com, page 124
August 9, 2014
Transcribing my feelings from this place onto the written page:...
Transcribing my feelings from this place onto the written page: “It was a simpler paradise.”
August 8, 2014
August 3, 2014
Bugs and Beauty
The next three nights we were together—that is, we slept in the same bed. Each night, I woke up to her crying.
And on that third night, my mind drifted to a time when I lived with Patrick; we had a neighbor who loved to garden. He planted beautiful flowers on his balcony, so many that it was filled with an assortment of colors dripping over the railing like an oil painting. It was quite magnificent to stare at from my window or from the street.
One day, he invited me to join him; we...
July 30, 2014
"You develop an extra sense that partly excludes you from experience. When writers experience things,..."
“You develop an extra sense that partly excludes you from experience. When writers experience things, they’re not really experiencing them anything like 100 percent. They’re always holding back and wondering what the significance is, or wondering how they’d do it on the page.”
- Martin Amis
- Martin Amis
"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as tour headlights, but you..."
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as tour headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
- E. L. Doctorow
- E. L. Doctorow
"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you..."
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
- E. L. Doctorow
- E. L. Doctorow
"Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of..."
“Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story ideas seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky: two previously unrelated ideas come together and make something new under the sun. Your job isn’t to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.”
- Stephen King
- Stephen King
