NEW YORK - Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of woe about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer at age 78.
I read Teacher Man about a month ago. All his years of teaching creative writing in New York City schools...in the end, only one student challenged him to write a book. The last line of Teacher Man:
"Maybe I will."
I'm glad he did.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated” - Ghandi
Writing Affirmations
- Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- What you have in your heart becomes your experience
- You need to always break from the past. This makes it easy for you to accept new experiences and meet new people.
- Follow your heart and you will always find your treasure.
- Ernest Hemingway, "The first draft of anything is shit."
- Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it. Robbie Gass
- Today is the best day to create. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow isn't here.
- Writing to me is a gift from the great creator. Using this creativity is my gift back to the universe.
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