On Writing … and Satan

On Writing … and Satan October 12, 2006

A well-known writer got collared by a university student who asked, “Do you think I could be a writer?

“Well,” the writer said, “I don’t know … Do you like sentences?”

— Annie Dillard in The Writing Life.

Two boys were walking home from Sunday school after hearing a strong sermon on the devil. One said to the other, “What do you think about all this Satan stuff?”

The other boy replied, “Well, you know how Santa Claus turned out. It’s probably just your Dad.”

— Taken from one of my mom’s forwards.


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