“I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world.
~ Seamus Heaney
Hope the poems
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Why Do We Write?
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.” ~ Ted Hughes
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Looking for a Character for Your Story?
“Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.”
~ Elizabeth Bowen
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Traits of a Writer
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” ~ W. Somerset Maugham
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Simple Recipe to Write a Novel
“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Looking For Inspiration for a Storyline?
“In fact, I think every book I’ve written has been inspired by a real event.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Starting Place for a Story
“I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.”
~ Donald E. Westlake
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Who Are You Writing to Please?
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Looking for a Story Idea?
“But how could you live and have no story to tell?” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Reason to Write Fiction
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.” ~ Neil Gaiman
