“We don t read and write poetry because it s cute.”
“You know she is the one when she makes you write.”
“Embrace your own vision. Your own voice.”
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear”
“You write what you are compelled to.”
“I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.”
“Writing is about exploring the feelings”
“So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I ve learned some things. Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled file and forget, and I can neither file nor forget. Nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. Why should I be the one to dream this nightmare?”
“For me, I think it was a little easier to write thinking that nobody was listening.”
“Write from the heart. A book without a pulse is like a person without a spirit. Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications”
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
“They could not write their names, but I can write mine, and I will again, somewhere where it will last for a long, long time. I will find Ky, and then I will find that place.”
“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.”
“She asked me could I read and write. I told her, Of course, and I can talk too.”
“I write for the same reason I read: because it s all there is for me.”
“When a day goes by and I haven t written anything, I better have been doing something worth writing about.”
“Every letter that she types; every keystroke that she strikes- To spell your name again and again, is all she ever wants to write.”