Sarah E. Moffett

In honor of Father’s Day, below are some of my favorite literary quotes on dads. Ten points if you work it into a last minute Father’s Day card. Double it if you use one in a phone conversation.
“To be a successful father…there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for […]

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When I was writing, it was necessary for me to read after I had written. If you kept thinking about it, you would lose the thing that you were writing before you could go on with it the next day. It was necessary to get exercise, to be tired in the body, and it was […]

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“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.” I couldn’t agree more with Bill Watterson, except to add that getting this D.C. slushy nastiness is more like having to pay back the lottery. After you’ve spent it.
 
Rumor has it that in some countries, snow is so rare, that it is […]

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Nothing like a hometown paper write up to make one feel important…or validated.  Particularly when said newspaper covers the geographical region of Leadville, Colorado (below), which is the home to several generations of Moffetts and shockingly the setting for part of my first book, Growing Up Moffett.  Prosaic, I know.

“Written with a good sense of […]

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What is art?
Snoozing, aren’t you.
I generally am too when someone pulls that gem out of the air. Then I heard an answer in the most unlikely place.

If only all of life’s mysteries were discoverable in the midst of a rock opera complete with laser show, faux-snow, and pyrotechnician’s dream.
Paul O’Neill, one of the founders of […]

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A Month in the Country. All harried-D.C. professionals could use one. Except me. I need a solid year. Alas, the evening before Thanksgiving had to suffice. Under the guidance of J.L. Carr’s pen, my excursion into A Month in the Country was packed neatly and movingly into 111 pages and two festive rum punches.
It was […]

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“The best way to avoid being picked on by high school bullies is to kill someone” is the opening line to Touching Snow, a 2007 National Book Award nominee written by M. Sindy Felin. Ms. Felin clearly has a knack for one liners. Her first quote in the Washington Post Style article was “I always […]

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Recently, I read Kurt Vonnegut’s below rant in The Breakfast of Champions. It made me laugh, made me sad, made me move, and made me wonder. Thoughts?
I had no respect whatsoever for the creative works of either the painter or the novelist. I thought Karabekian with this meaningless pictures had entered into a conspiracy with […]

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One has a lot of hours to kill when crossing the pond. Particularly if one is crossing the pond via American Airlines, who decides showing Young Frankenstein qualifies for quality entertainment. Out came the paperback, Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote.
Considering the joy the Greene’s Man Within brought me, I was ready for Greene to redeem himself. Instead, […]

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“Writing is exorcism by printed exhibitionism.”
Thanks for making me author of the day Eileen Parker. See you on the virtual book tour.
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