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

This notice noisily arrived on my iPhone today: Public Safety Alert The County of LA is ordering another curfew from 6pm tonight to 6am Read More...

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

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.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

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Neil Gaiman

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Dan Poynter

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E. L. Doctorow

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Anton Chekhov

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

Oscar Wilde

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Stories are never too long or too short. They’re too interesting or too boring.

William Shawn

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

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Stephen King

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