Happy Thanksgiving

I had hoped to blog again before leaving for Thanksgiving, but it’s not going to happen. We leave by train tomorrow for Minnesota. We’ll be visiting our daughter attending seminary near St. Cloud and returning home November 30. On Monday the 29th I’ll take visiting Bethany House in Minneapolis. My friend Andy McGuire (an editor at Bethany House) will be showing me around. His books for children would make excellent gifts for that preschooler on your list. I love Rainy Day Games, one of the very few children’s books I’ve acquired for Harvest House.

While I’m gone, keep writing. A writer is always on duty, even on holidays. You’ll always observing and absorbing. Everything is grist for the mill.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes to keep you on track. If any strike you as particularly noteworthy, add your own comment.

“People read fiction for emotion, not information.” Sinclair Lewis

“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.” –Hart Crane

“I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.” Isak Dinesen

“You can never know enough about your characters.” Somerset Maugham.

“I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.” Ellen Glasgow

“You lose it if you talk about it.” Ernest Hemingway.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! (And when you’re thinking about all the things you’re thankful for this year, be sure and thank God for your desire to write).

5 replies
  2. Rebekah Haché says:

    Welcome to my home!!! MN has a beautiful blanket of snow for you already and it sounds like we’ll have some pretty new snow to celebrate Thanksgiving with! Enjoy your time with Rachel and visiting The Cities. My husband works on the Bethany Campus, at the College though. Have fun!

  3. Jan Cline says:

    Have a blessed holiday Nick. I heard Andy interveiwed on the radio a while back and thought his books sounded delightful. My granddaughters will be getting them for Christmas. Have a safe trip.
    Blessings.
    Jan

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