by Jordan Dotson | Dec 23, 2018 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and... by Jordan Dotson | Jul 11, 2015 | Things I wish I'd written
Uncle Pumblechook: a large hard-breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to. …Charles Dickens... by Jordan Dotson | Jun 26, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
Seriously. What is it with me and Dickens? Perhaps it’s because the novel I’m writing is effusive with physical, geographic complexity, but I’m getting obsessed with this cat. Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and... by Jordan Dotson | Jun 5, 2014 | Beautiful Prose, Things I wish I'd written
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him. …Chuck Dickens, from David Copperfield. I should probably just admit that he’s my favorite writer, and, for that matter, that I’m procrastinating at this very second. by Jordan Dotson | Mar 28, 2014 | Things I wish I'd written
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men,...