I Wanted To Know What I Was Going To Write.

(Waiting... for a story to unfold)

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

- Vita Sackville-West


A photograph may capture an image but it needs the accompanying words to bring the story to life.

- Ghostwise

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Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

- Sharon O'Brien


You will be the one most surprised by what you have written.

- Ghostwise

Painting Is Silent Poetry, Poetry is Eloquent Painting.

(Today I wrote a story about a painting - The Painting of Endless Sorrow in The Ghosts & I).

If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

- Honore De Balzac


If we could but paint with the hand what we feel with our heart.

-Ghostwise

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Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting.

- Simonides of Ceos


They tell the same story in different ways.

- Ghostwise

Each Line On A White Page.

(Today I received a white flower.)

“There's times when you'll think that you mightn't,
There's times when you know that you might;
But the things you will learn from the Yellow and Brown,
They'll 'elp you a lot with the White!”

- Rudyard Kipling


When you focus too long on the "White", you became snow-blind.

-Ghostwise

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“As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face”

- Joseph Campbell

It is beautiful because it has been written all over. Each line a story on a white page.

- Ghostwise

The Pearl,

(Last night I stayed in a hotel called Pearl View looking across at Penang, our "Pearl Of The Orient". Today's post is about pearl.)

“Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase”

- John Balguy


It is said the best pearl is produced in a calm sea.

- Ghostwise

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“In the town they tell the story of the great pearl—how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell of Kino, the fisherman, and of his wife, Juana, and of the baby, Coyotito. And because the story has been told so often, it has taken root in every man’s mind. And, as with all retold tales that are in people’s hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere."

“If this story is a parable, perhaps everyone takes his own meaning from it and reads his own life into it..."

- John Steinbeck ("The Pearl")


If you found a pearl of great value and thought it a curse of bad luck, would you throw it back into the sea?

- Ghostwise