Hope the poems

“I can’t write a scene unless I’ve visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that’s why a lot of reviewers have said my books are very cinematic, because I actually do see them before I write them.”

~ Eric Van Lustbader

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“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.” ~ Louis L’Amour

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“Let passion be your muse. Let her guide and teach you to trust your instincts.”

“A story should be like a river, flowing and never stopping, your readers passengers on a boat, whirling downstream through constantly refreshing and changing scenery.”

“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”

~ Ray Bradbury

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“When you write – explode – fly apart – disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.”

~ Ray Bradbury

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“Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”

“Don’t write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won’t write anything worth reading.” ~ Ray Bradbury

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“A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.”  ~ Ray Bradbury

“My stories run up and bite me on the leg – I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.”