Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
~ Robert Hass
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"It turns out you are the story of your childhood
and you’re under constant revision,
like a lonely folktale whose invisible folks
are all the selves you’ve been, lifelong,
shadows in fog, grey glimmers at dusk."
~ from A Happy Childhood by William Matthews
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
~ E. L. Doctorow
"It turns out you are the story of your childhood
and you’re under constant revision,
like a lonely folktale whose invisible folks
are all the selves you’ve been, lifelong,
shadows in fog, grey glimmers at dusk."
~ from A Happy Childhood by William Matthews
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
~ E. L. Doctorow