Will Harrison
Will Harrison
mother jealous firsts
My mother was my first jealous lover ...
children responsibility goodness
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
america rooms lost
Porches are America's lost rooms.
inspirational art reality
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
ideas people original-ideas
There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
attempt bargain believes foot fulfill great survey
World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
successes
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
believe democratic directed government measures poor rich richer
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
american-president directed government measures poor richer
All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
afraid ask genre good ground hide rule trying undermine
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
agreement identity prison
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
country cities forever
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.
goes-on never-forget worst
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.
adventure fire drunk
After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.