April 28, 2005

It's all in the details

I really like this quote from novelist Bobbie Ann Mason:

"I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere."
Posted by sheila
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I love this quote, too. I've found that with interior designs, sometimes it's the limitations that inspire the rest. Much more fun to deal with a complicated architectural issue than with a plain white box.

Posted by: Stevie at April 29, 2005 12:10 AM

Shalom Red,

I see that you too are a fan of Garrion Keillor's The Writer's Almanac..

Do you perhaps know the origin of the Mason quote?

B'shalom,

Jeff Hess

Posted by: Jeff Hess at May 1, 2005 10:15 AM