My Life As A Tweeter On Twitter: 9-20-11 Entries Poem by Lonnie Hicks

'If your history is full of tv commercials, then you are in trouble.'


'I had put his book down, it was talking me to death.'

'Meaning is inversely proportional to the number of words used to express meaning.'

'In music, you are not making a statement, you are showing who you be, if not you are just jamming.'

'You can't speak to another person's soul if you are talking.'

'I try to make all the characters in my books better than I am or much worse.'

'Stay calm, stay centered, summon your peace and you'll prevail against anything.'

'If someone calls you a name demand details. 'Cow? ' What kind? Jersey, Holstein. You don't know, what do you know? Quells bigots every time.

'Never stop a speaker while they are in the middle of being wrong. Let them ramble.'

'The problem with reality is that it reads too much like fiction.'


'Note to writers & musicians: people often aren't interested in your art, as much as they are interested in you, so show'em who you be.'

'Never end a chapter without leaving 'em wanting more. Try to do it with sentences too.'

'The adventure is not in knowing; the adventure is in not knowing.'

'The secret to great writing is to put one or more of the five senses in every sentence, otherwise you're doing journalism.'