“I’m not a good shot, but I shoot often.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.”

– Rita Dove

“I don’t know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.”

– Don DeLillo

“. . . [writing] is your friend. It will never desert you, though you may desert it many times. The writing process is a constant source of life and vitality.”                                – Natalie Goldberg in Writing Down the Bones

“The faster I write the better my output. If I’m going slow I’m in trouble. It means I’m pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.”

“I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”
-Cyril Connolly

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.” – Nikki Giovanni

The first issue of WRITE (now) NEWSLETTER.