writing by moonlight: Sew-phisticated beauty

Friday, June 12, 2009

Sew-phisticated beauty

Check out the latest issue of Essenze magazine, they've made my article a cover story ;)

This time, I've written something on the art of Malay embroidery.

My husband and I are leaving for Sydney in a few days, I'm so excited!

my inspiration

"a writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper" - e.b. white

"writing is long periods of thinking and short periods of writing" - ernest hemingway

"you have to write a lot of bad words before you can write some good ones" - holly black

"we all know that writing comes out of a man or a woman sitting alone in a room with the telephone off the hook, a cup of coffee and in the good old days, a cigarette" - doris lessing

"never abandon imagination" - tony diterlizzi

"i believe that writers should write about what they don't know, not about what they do know... which stops them discovering the incredible joys of invention" - peter carey

"flattery is just as dangerous or destructive as criticism" - heath ledger

"it is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them" - mark twain

"a cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience" - naomi wolf

"we do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better" - j.k. rowling

"you must write for children, as you write for adults, only better" - maxim gorky

"The drudgery of being a professional writer comes in trying to make good days out of bad days and in squeezing out the words when they won't just flow" - benjamin cavell

"everything will be okay in the end. if it's not okay, it's not the end" ~ anon

"you don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day" - viggo mortensen

"every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up" - pablo picasso

"good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child" - anonymous

"i'll have 10 grams of rice, 1/10 of a hectagram od shrimp vindaloo, a decagram od chada aloo masala, 1000 centigrams of tandoori salmon, 4 samosas the surface area of 19 cubic centimeters, 5 decileters of mango lassi, and a sada rava dosai that is exactly 10 centimeters long" - mrs bass in the penultimate peril by lemony snicket

"the world will look up and shout 'save us' and I'll whisper... no" - rorschach, watchmen

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Friday, June 12, 2009

Sew-phisticated beauty

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