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.”

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2 Responses to It’s all in the details

  1. Stevie says:

    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.

  2. Jeff Hess says:

    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

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