Hope the poems

“The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.” ~ Raymond Chandler

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“The first Chapter Law is, “Don’t spend much time on it. You’re going to have to rewrite it.” ~ Tony Hillerman

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“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” ~ Virginia Woolf

“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.”

“With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.  ~ William Faulkner

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“Writers don’t write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.” ~ Judith Guest

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“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You’re there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see – every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”

“Sometimes … the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote – these form the spine of the short short.”