Dr. Mardy's Quotes of the Week (Inspiration: Divine or Otherwise")
Jan. 12—18, 2025 | THIS WEEK'S THEME: “Inspiration—Part One: Divine or Otherwise"
Great Opening Line of the Week
The protagonist, a WWII veteran and struggling young writer with the unusual name of Stingo, opens the novel nicely, but it’s about to get a whole lot better. As he continues, he advances the story with what I regard as literary history’s best-ever description of that dreaded condition known as Writer’s Block:
“At twenty-t…


