Painted Path: Softening

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector." Ernst Hemingway "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." Cyril Connolly ..... Our gift, and consequently our responsibility as writers, is to view life situations in our naturally unique way and report the truth about their meanings and values to the reading public so they can have fresh insight into the human condition. ...