“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston S. Churchill“The pen is the tongue of the mind.” – Miguel de Cervantes“We read five words on the first page of a re…

“The only way to learn to write is to write.” – Peggy Teeters“A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has th…

“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.” – Eugene Ionesco“You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be ab…

“What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies….Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind…

“I knew as I wrote them (journals) that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.” – Colleen Wainwright, “communicatrix…

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“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make i…

“The only way to learn to write is to write.” – Peggy Teeters“A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has th…