Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no... ...
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Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.   — Mordecai RichlerThat Mordecai, always so sunny!Today's Five Star... .
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #76","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/10\/five-star-fridays-edition-76.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-10-23 09:33:28","summary":"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."}

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by the means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures... Click on the title to view this.
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #75","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/10\/five-star-fridays-edition-75.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-10-16 10:20:41","summary":"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by the means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures... Click on the title to view this."}

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.    — Joan Baez Now that summer is officially over...
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #74","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/10\/five-star-fridays-edition-74.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-10-09 09:06:18","summary":"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. "}

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 Your day is now dedicated to the...
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #73","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/10\/five-star-fridays-edition-73.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-10-02 11:31:07","summary":"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. "}