Quarantined and curfewed in Los Angeles County.

01 Jun, 2020

This notice noisily arrived on my iPhone today: Public Safety Alert The County of LA is ordering another curfew from 6pm tonight to 6am tomorrow for all Los Angeles County including all cities in the county. Traveling to and from work, seeking or giving emergency care and emergency responders are exempt. More information is available at lacounty.gov/emergency. Which was followed moments later by: Emergency Alert Curfew now 5pm-6am. I replied with this tweet to the LA County Sheriff's Department: @LASDHQ Yo, regarding the 5pm curfew, my mail gets delivered at 5:30. Curfew or not, I'm gonna walk down the street to get it. Feel free to send a deputy to make sure I don't riot enroute. Or on the way back. #LACURFEW #lariots #laprotest So, if anyone sees me getting arrested, please tell my sister to call Bad Boys Bail Bonds to get me out. Thank you.

Quarantined and curfewed in Los Angeles County.

June 1, 2020May 9, 2025

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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.