“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.” ThinkingTryingRememberMotherFoundSickJournal Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.” NeedsWritingTryingKindBookDifferentPlayDisciplineDown AndNotesDifferent ThingsTapeJournal Author:Amy Ray
“I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry my whole adult life - without ever once trying to publish it, and rarely letting anyone read it.” WritingTryingPhilosophyWholeFictionAdultsAcademicJournalPublishWriting Fiction Author:Cheryl Mendelson
“Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down” IfsTryingRunningTodayTurnsBeliefEditorsLockedSkepticismJournalAvenuesParadigmBlockedEvery Avenue Author:Fred Hoyle