“If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.” IfsMenTwoDifferentWould BeMorningFourSeaBlockAbortionSaltPregnantFlavorAirportsPillsStarbucksClinicMorning After Author:Nasim Pedrad
“Fiction -- at least for me -- requires long, relatively uninterrupted time stretches in which to bring it to fruition. I've never been a two-hour-in-the-morning writer, who could put in another six hours on Sunday afternoon. For me, a novel requires weeks of living in a largely mental and wholly internal landscape. Everything else has to be relegated to the odd hour here, the bit of time there. Sadly, however, uninterrupted time blocks are not what life doles out today to any of us with regularity.” LongTwoTodayBitsHoursFictionMorningNovelWeekSixBlockLandscapeOddInternalsSundayAfternoonRegularityFruitionSunday Afternoons Book:Conversations with Samuel R. Delany Source: Conversations with Samuel R. Delany
“The desert is cold early in the morning. Laying down on that sand is like laying on a block of ice.” MorningColdBlockIceDesertSandLaying Down Author:Steven Michael Quezada
“No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.” MorningContactBlockIceIndianSavagesTribesRottenAnthropologyOld LadyHerringIndian Tribes Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.” KnowsFirstsBigsMorningKnow HowGrewGrew UpCookingBlockCooksMealsGrandmotherSundayMy GrandmotherRefrigeratorsHarlemSunday MorningLard Author:Richard Carmona
“If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.” IfsWritingBeautifulSpiritualFallEnergyPracticeMorningMeditationBlockEveningTapeSpiritual PracticeEvaluationWriter's BlockSpiritual Power Author:Sandra Cisneros