Love and Memory

I've been tearing my hair out trying to write my first real syllabus for my first college teaching gig. English 101 of course. See, I placed out of that. Which means I am so smart that I actually still don't know basic composition. Now I'll have to learn. I think it will be good for me. My poor students...

Anyway. I was looking for my favorite quote about writing, to inspire my students or at least make them laugh:

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

I found out it was written by the eminently quotable newsman Gene Fowler. And I also found this resonant loveliness:

"Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness."

Hard to believe the same hardboiled journalist wrote that. The beauty of that sentence stopped me cold. Almost made me want to run to my journal and rub together two of my own sentences.

Almost.