I have never in my life known a writer who enjoyed the actual act of writing less than Lucy [Grealy], which is saying something because just about every writer I know sits down to work with some degree of dread.Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004), p. 113.
commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement.
OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.
commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Writers face writing with dread
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