K L Kemp
INSPIRATIONS
The written word inspires me: books, quotes, plays, poems, billboards and bumper stickers. Below is a small sampling of things that have sparked my imagination. This listing is just a sampling, and may change as I continue to read, learn, and grow as an individual, and as an author. I hope you find as much pleasure in exploring them as I have.
QUOTES
'Sometimes, the hands of God can be found at the end of our arms." - from PBS - Call the Midwife
"Make them laugh. Make them cry. Make them wait." - Charles Dickens
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's the day to day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekov
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." - Anton Chekov
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." - Mark Twain"
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." - Mark Twain
"You all laugh because I am different. I laugh because you are all the same." - Bumper Sticker
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BOOKS
The works of Ivan Doig
The works of Sandra Dallas
The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
The Worst Hard Time - Timothy Egen
The Big Burn - Timothy Egen
Bad Dirt - Annie Proulx
The Shipping News - Annie Proulx
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime - Mark Haddon
The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
House of Rain - Craig Shields
On the the Nature of Things - Epicurus
The Valley of the Moon - Jack London
Dakota, A Spiritual Geography - Kathleen Norris
The Sound of Paper - Julia Cameron
The Elements of Eloquence - Mark Forsyth
The Etymologicon - Mark Forsyth
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PLAYS
Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neil
The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekov
POEMS
Renascence - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters
The works of Wendell Berry
The poems of Margaret Atwater
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BUMPER STICKERS
You laugh because I am different. I laugh because you are all the same
(From an animal shelter) Who rescued who?