Wordshore

America, Libraries, Writing and Publishing.

“The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.”

—   John Irving
Aurora Borealis, from Bear Lake, Alaska by Beverly & Pack on Flickr.

“Supposing is good, but finding out is better.”

—   Mark Twain
8.4.2010 <balloons & corn> 202/365 by Phil Roeder on Flickr.
Home (Iowa).

8.4.2010 <balloons & corn> 202/365 by Phil Roeder on Flickr.


Home (Iowa).

“No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library. When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.”

—   Lawrence Clark Powell
Sunset on the Missouri by mrwsierra on Flickr.

“Don’t get it right, just get it written.”

—   James Thurber
Big Wheel by Uncle Phooey on Flickr.
The Missouri state fair.

Big Wheel by Uncle Phooey on Flickr.


The Missouri state fair.

“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.”

—   Terry Southern
Farm Buildings Sailing on a Ocean of Wheat by Todd Klassy on Flickr.
Montana.

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”

—   Joan Didion
Prairie by Wolfgang Staudt on Flickr.
Colorado.

Prairie by Wolfgang Staudt on Flickr.


Colorado.

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”

—   Don DeLillo, author of Underworld.
Mount Hunter by NaturalLight on Flickr.
Alaska.

Mount Hunter by NaturalLight on Flickr.


Alaska.