Monday, May 26, 2008

Quote of the Day

mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC: I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. - James Jones

So how does this explain women writers?

2 comments:

Madam Backslash said...

Reminds me of the character in Virginia Woolf's "To the Light House", who stomps around proclaiming "women can't write, women can't paint" while surrounded by women writing and painting.

Cheryl Strayed said...

Thank you, J.D.! Always refreshing when a man notices that kind of dunderheaded crap. ox Cheryl