“We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits.
- Joe Morelli”
Source: Hard Eight
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Context: I write from instinct, from inexplicable sparkle. I don't know why I'm writing what I'm writing. Usually, I sit and I let my hands wander on my guitar. And I sing anything. I play anything. And I wait till I come across a pleasing accident. Then I start to develop it. Once you take a piece of musical information, there are certain implications that it automatically contains — the implication of that phrase elongated, contracted, or inverted or in another time signature. So you start with an impulse and go to what your ear likes.
“I’ve never thought much of Joe Nye’s writings on soft power.”
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur, p. 24
"From a Chain letter to George R. R. Martin and Greg Benford", 10 July 1982; as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Nonfiction
“A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.”
One-liners
“Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.”
Source: The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance
