Grammar Pirates

HAPPY TALK-LIKE-A-PIRATE DAY!

View the full comic at KindofSketchy.

Thank ye to cartoonist Scott Clark. We're obliged, matey.

Getting Simple

Happy Birthday, Tomie!

"Getting to simple is very hard to achieve."
-Tomie DePaola*

Bookplate by Tomie DePaola
Courtesy MyMaineVintage

*Reading Rockets interview

Write Everyday

" . . . there are many privileges in a freelance, self-employed life. Writing everyday is a small price to pay."
-John Updike

H A Mueller
Courtesy BooksAroundTheTable

Growing Up

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”*
- e. e. cummings

Bookplate of Carl Larsson

* motivationalwellbeing

The Writer's Precipice

"The writer has to force himself to work. . . . Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."*
-Roald Dahl

Bookplate by Nicola Bayley
available from My Home Library

*From Boy. Thanks to Jessica Warman and Tara Lazar.

Read Fearlessly

"Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book . . ."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower*

Bookplate by Fortune Bovard, 1904

* Remarks at the Dartmouth College Commencement Exercises, Hanover, New Hampshire. June 14, 1953

Books Are Like People

"I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them."
-Emma Thompson*

Bookplate of Olga Adamus

*Oprah interview