The business of the novelist is not to chronicle great events but to make small ones interesting. Arthur Schopenhauer Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
Get your calendar ready… Last month, I attended a literary cage fight hosted by Sophie Hamley at Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt called “When Genres Attack!”. It was an inspiring evening of intellectual and insightful debate that prompted me to ask my readers whether genre should actually mean something to them…
In regard to language, democratic nations prefer obscurity to labor. Alexis de Tocqueville Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear. Joseph Joubert Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
If science tends to thicken the crust of ice on which, as it were, we are skating, it is all right. If it tries to find, or professes to have found, the solid ground at the bottom of the water, it is all wrong. Samuel Butler (II) Welcome to Zena’s…
In merciless and rollicking comedy life is caught in the act. George Santayana Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.
In mixed company, women practice a sort of visual shorthand, which, later, they will laboriously and at great length decode in the company of other women. Malcolm de Chazal Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know…
