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...

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

Dan Poynter

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.

Raymond Chandler

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

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William Faulkner

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

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Neil Gaiman

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

William Shawn

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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John Irving

Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.

Orson Scott Card

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

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

Stan Lee

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Quentin Tarantino

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

T.S. Eliot

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E. L. Doctorow

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