tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post2736363997255792141..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: #501Jim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-8436090824400971962015-04-01T00:56:39.661+01:002015-04-01T00:56:39.661+01:00Everything is copy and everyone is fodder, eh, Kas...Everything is copy and everyone is fodder, eh, <b>Kass</b>? Thankfully I’ve never been the kind of writer whose friends need to be afraid to open up to lest what they say ends up in a story of a novel. Maybe my friends just don’t do very interesting things. Lucky for them it’s not why I write. I’ve never been a storyteller. I was watching a short documentary last night in which the writer William McIlvanney talked about why he wrote and I liked his choice of expression very much. He said he wrote to “clarify” things. Not a word I would’ve chosen but I would have to agree. That’s why I write, to work things out on paper that are too complex to work out in my head. The distance helps immensely.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-68848969352594516992015-03-31T17:26:21.079+01:002015-03-31T17:26:21.079+01:00Oh so true, Jim. Love that last quote. How about t...Oh so true, Jim. Love that last quote. How about this one from writer, Nora Ephron’s mother, Phoebe, “Everything is copy.”Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-30574276956175024672015-03-26T01:29:06.077+00:002015-03-26T01:29:06.077+00:00A few years back I asked some of my online friends...A few years back I asked some of my online friends for help with a blog I was trying to write, <b>Kass</b>. I asked them to provide a quote from a piece of their writing and only one person gave me anything and it really wasn’t what I was looking for. I read books and poems all the time where lines jump out at me and I think, <i>Ooh, that’s a great quote</i> and, of course, we forget it. There should be a site—there probably already is—where you can submit new quotes rather than having to rely on the same old ones. I’ve just finished a book my Matt Haig and I should be working on the review but I thought I’d get this reply written first. Anyway it’s a book on depression and there are several decent quotes like this one: “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” You could probably get away with the last sentence. The book I’m editing just now has some great quotes in it. My favourite is probably, “Writers don’t have real lives; they have ongoing research.” In this modern age we need quotes more than ever. It’s all most of us can remember.Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-89598326233547466712015-03-25T14:28:47.702+00:002015-03-25T14:28:47.702+00:00I love the twist on 'the eyes of man'. Bei...I love the twist on 'the eyes of man'. Being filled with birds is much better than never being satisfied (Proverbs 27:20).<br /><br />I feel the same about all my books of quotes. I inherited my Dad's (Barlett's and others) and they're dog-eared and quite tattered because he used quotes in a lot of the talks he gave as Bishop of our ward.Kasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05233330248952156754noreply@blogger.com