A real bio is forthcoming, but in the meantime, here’s a mishmash:
I’m book crazy. My favorite of all is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
My favorite line from a poem:
“. . . the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid.”
–ee cummings
Another couple lines I love:
“The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”
–Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
And this:
“Later she sat on the ground in the forest between school and home, and spring was so bright and beautiful, the warm air touched her so tenderly, she could almost feel herself changing into a flower. Her light dress felt like petals.
“I love everything,” she heard herself say.
“So do I,” a voice answered.
Pearl straigtened up and looked around. No one was there.”
–William Steig, The Amazing Bone
Some more tidbits:
I can’t seem to stay out of school: I have a BA from Cornell, an MFA in poetry from Brown and another MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. I am concocting a plan to go back to school again, to study art and religion this time. I like to teach too.
I’ve worked in publishing for many years as a literary agent at Manus & Associates Literary Agency, representing lots of amazing writers.
I’m crazy about Franz Marc’s blue horses, most every painting by Chagall.
And giants.
Giraffes rule.
I love rivers, red desert mountains, rain, really hot weather, diving into blue water, poetry, art, going to many movies in a row, going out to dinner, to France, red, orange and magenta, tulips and lilacs, night-blooming trees and people, myth, magic, gusto, geekiness, clunky shoes and bracelets, being ridiculously in love, innovative neuroses—especially taken to the Woody Allenth degree. I’m mad for California, how it teeters on the edge of the continent.
I daydream a lot. I mean, a lot a lot.
A quote about writing I adore:
“To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories—science fiction or otherwise. Which means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
–Ray Bradbury
One last favorite quote:
“I believe in nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination.”
–John Keats
Okay, this is the last one, for real:
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
bio
Bio
A real bio is forthcoming, but in the meantime, here’s a mishmash:
I’m book crazy. My favorite of all is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
My favorite line from a poem:
“. . . the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid.”
–ee cummings
Another couple lines I love:
“The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”
–Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
And this:
“Later she sat on the ground in the forest between school and home, and spring was so bright and beautiful, the warm air touched her so tenderly, she could almost feel herself changing into a flower. Her light dress felt like petals.
“I love everything,” she heard herself say.
“So do I,” a voice answered.
Pearl straigtened up and looked around. No one was there.”
–William Steig, The Amazing Bone
Some more tidbits:
I can’t seem to stay out of school: I have a BA from Cornell, an MFA in poetry from Brown and another MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. I am concocting a plan to go back to school again, to study art and religion this time. I like to teach too.
I’ve worked in publishing for many years as a literary agent at Manus & Associates Literary Agency, representing lots of amazing writers.
I’m crazy about Franz Marc’s blue horses, most every painting by Chagall.
And giants.
Giraffes rule.
I love rivers, red desert mountains, rain, really hot weather, diving into blue water, poetry, art, going to many movies in a row, going out to dinner, to France, red, orange and magenta, tulips and lilacs, night-blooming trees and people, myth, magic, gusto, geekiness, clunky shoes and bracelets, being ridiculously in love, innovative neuroses—especially taken to the Woody Allenth degree. I’m mad for California, how it teeters on the edge of the continent.
I daydream a lot. I mean, a lot a lot.
A quote about writing I adore:
“To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfume and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish for you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories—science fiction or otherwise. Which means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
–Ray Bradbury
One last favorite quote:
“I believe in nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of the imagination.”
–John Keats
Okay, this is the last one, for real:
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
–Willa Cather