Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions, founded in 1997. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Philadelphia area
Joined January 2010
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“Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I’m telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.” ~ Peter Straub
"We all benefit from exiting our routines and ruts occasionally, but writers who are halfway or so along in an ambitious project need this escape with some urgency. We need to see, and then re-see, before we revise."
~ Dinty W Moore
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"I am a fixer by nature. I have spent much of my life solving problems, running a business, taking care of people, and making things work. Writing memoir forced me to accept that some things could not be fixed on the page."
~ Sheri Smith
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Writing classes, meetings with agents and editors, a sumptuous Sunday pub roast, walking tours of literary London, afternoon tea, Stonehenge & maybe @GuerillaMemoir will show us her fire-eating street performer moves during a visit to Covent Garden. brevity.wordpress.com/2026/1…
"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going." ~ Tennessee Williams
"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." ~ Joanna Maciejewska / @AuthorJMac
"Moving back into the spaces where the loss occurred can be soothing. Turning it over in my hands and finding new language through which to tell the story, yet again, reminds me of who I was and who I am."
~ Karen Paul
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"Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?" ~ William Kittredge
"You can start by sharing one scene or even one moment. You can write it down and never publish it. You can show it to one person you trust before anyone else sees it."
~ Dr. Kyle Elliott
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"Writing had required privacy, slowness and uncertainty. Publishing, as I found out, came with its own costume department."
~ Maria Meitern
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"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong." ~ Richard Feynman
"I tire just thinking about the strict regimens of Haruki Murakami, Stephen King, Maya Angelou, Ernest Hemingway. The hours at their desks for some, the compulsory word count for others. Bless them."
~ Donna Cameron
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"It seems many of us have no time and frazzled brains in this AI age, bombarded by constant content and endless reels. Our attention is all over the place. It is a struggle for all of us to protect our precious reading time."
~ Natalie Serianni
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"Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.” ~ Mary Oliver
“I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.” ~ Susan Cheever
"Something happens when you-the-writer make that switch and it isn’t subtle, at least not to me. The “you” version asks the reader to agree with an argument. The “I” version doesn’t ask them anything."
~ Huck Smith
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"It’s not surprising that a memoir about a lost identity, a world turned upside down, and the search for truth has been difficult to write and equally challenging to structure."
~ Margo Warren
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"Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit." ~ Andrei Sakharov
