“Don’t ever write anything you don’t like yourself and if you do like it, don’t take anyone’s advice about changing it. They just don’t know.”
~ Raymond Chandler
mystery
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ How Deep Is Your Desire to Write?
“Cats gotta scratch. Dogs gotta bite. I gotta write.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Make the Reader Want More
“Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.”
~ Sidney Sheldon
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Don’t Let Go!
“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.”
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Jump Into the Scene You’re Writing
“Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you’re going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you’re in.”
~ Ridley Pearson
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ What If Your Story Sounds Like Writing?
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
~ Elmore Leonard
Love ~ A Short Poem by Tagore
Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.
– Rabindranath Tagore
Today’s Quote on Life as Mystery
There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
Jorge Luis Borges
“The Child Is Father To the Man” Poem by GErard Manley Hopkins
“The child is father to the man.’
How can he be? The words are wild.
Suck any sense from that who can:
‘The child is father to the man.’
No; what the poet did write ran,
‘The man is father to the child.’
‘The child is father to the man!’
How can he be? The words are wild.”
Excerpt From
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins / Now First Published
Gerard Manley Hopkins
