Posts tagged “writing”

It is harrowing for me to try to teach 20-year-old students, who earnestly want to improve their writing. The best I can think to tell them is: Quit smoking, and observe posted speed limits. This will improve your odds of getting old enough to be wise.
Barbara Kingsolver

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.
André Gide

a thousand thousand slimy things

a thousand thousand slimy things

He had a habit of starting enormous projects that he could not then finish.

I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends.
Mickey Spillane

Happy Birthday, W. Somerset Maugham

Happy Birthday, W. Somerset Maugham

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham, January 25, 1874 – December 16, 1965

Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.
George Santayana

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.