“A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.”
“Failure is a greater teacher than success”
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
I asked on facebook this last week "What's a book you wish more people had read?" and first among the answers was Clarissa Pinkola Estés's Women Who Run with Wolves.
Norman Mailer’s character timeline for Harlot’s Ghost.
A lot of the work of novel making is the handling of an immensely complex imaginary system of people, incidents and actions. Not surprising, a lot of writers resort to charts, outlines and graphs to handle it.
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Joseph Heller’s chart outline for Catch-22.
J.K Rowling's chart for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
James Salter’s outline for Light Years.
Sylvia Plath’s outline for The Bell Jar.
William Faulkner’s outline for A Fable — written on his office walls.
Part of Jennifer Egan’s plan for her short story “Black Box.”
Henry Miller’s manuscript plan for Tropic of Capricorn.