Archive - Follies and Nonsense - Ann Rawson Writes

A new obsession...

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." Jacob Bronowski

Aug 5, 2024 •

June 2024

Slowly, slowly...

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." Confucius

Jun 4, 2024 •

May 2024

The problem with pacing

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once." John Archibald Wheeler

May 13, 2024 •

March 2024

“The first draft of anything is shit.” — Ernest Hemingway.

Mar 12, 2024 •

What I've been reading

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe

Mar 2, 2024 •

February 2024

The secret of creativity

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath

Feb 19, 2024 •

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” -Stephen King

Feb 9, 2024 •

January 2024

Here it is at last - Rescue Child!

It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. – Zadie Smith

Jan 5, 2024 •

December 2023

"To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty." Stieg Larsson

Dec 14, 2023 •

October 2023

The Witch House is back!

"There is more to life than writing an publishing fiction." Philip Roth

Oct 26, 2023 •

September 2023

Writing is this easy....and this hard

"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." E L Doctorow

Sep 19, 2023 •

Britain's Patricia Highsmith ?

"For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not." Patricia Highsmith

Sep 3, 2023 •

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