We Learn by Writing

“People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come do...

"Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work." - Jennifer Egan Around the middle of October I learned about a boo...

“Writing a first draft is very much like watching a Polaroid develop. You can’t - and, in fact you’re not supposed to - know exactly what th...

“I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don’t have answers to.” - Toni Morrison  Where do you ge...

“You can always fix bad pages. You can’t fix no pages. So write. Just write. Try to turn off that voice of doom that paralyzes you.“ - Harl...

“Very few writers know what they are doing until they’ve done it.” - Anne Lamott What do I get out of writing? When I’m writing the r...

"Write what should not be forgotten." - Isabel Allende When I was in high school, I carried around a blue three-ring notebook bi...