“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
non fiction
Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Time to be Wary
“If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Reality of Writing
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.” ~
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Reason to Write
“If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom: Creating Characters
“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom: Why Write?
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Who’s The Most Important Audiance?
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” ~ Cyril Connolly
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom: Reasons to Write
“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ” ~
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: Writing Can Be Hard – Write Anyway
“I know it’s difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write.” ~
