Photo from http://blog.notesolution.com/2012/07/26/to-bring-or-not-to-bring/ Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth This is one of my favorite quotes of all time, about writing or anything else. A writer has to do this, I think, but there is a lot that can stand in the way of hearing our hearts. We can get …
So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948 Far be it from me to disagree with a writer from the past, but in this case, I do. We must dive into the …
“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.†― Carlos Ruiz Zafon I pick up my pen and I wonder, what will I tell myself today?
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth This is one of my favorite quotes on writing, from one of my favorite sources. In the midst of our work, in the midst of trying so hard to get it right, there are times when we forget this. We want our books to …