Member: shelterdowns

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About meObsessed collector of quotes. A random sample of favourites, to be changed out, well, randomly:

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. "
- Thomas Edison

“Originality has nothing to do with priority. An image is like a musical key; just because someone used G-minor before doesn’t make Mozart a copycat.”
--Stephen Mitchell


"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
--Douglas Adams

“To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
--Elbert Hubbard

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
~T.S. Eliot

and, of course:

“Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
--W.H. Auden

About my library“To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”
--Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”

GroupsA Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment, Early Reviewers, Upcoming Books

Favorite authorsDiane Ackerman, Douglas Adams, Aeschylus, Aristoteles, Isaac Asimov, A. S. Byatt, Julia Cameron, Jacqueline Carey, Michael Chabon, Annie Dillard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Diane Duane, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth George, Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephen Hawking, Ernest Hemingway, Frank Herbert, Peter Høeg, Guy Gavriel Kay, Søren Kierkegaard, Laurie R. King, Dean Koontz, Jonah Lehrer, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, Alice Munro, Kathleen Norris, Orhan Pamuk, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, Rainer Maria Rilke, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sophocles, Jules Verne, Walt Whitman, Philip Yancey, W. B. Yeats, Timothy Zahn (Shared favorites)

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Real nameKatrina L. MacWhirter

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Member sinceMay 7, 2006

Currently readingAcedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life by Kathleen Norris
This Body Of Death: An Inspector Lynley Novel by Elizabeth George
The God of the Hive: A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R. King