Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote
Quotes
It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
Jhumpa Lahiri
It is a magical thing
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
Beatrix Potter
There is something delicious
Write the kind of story you would like to read.
Meg Cabot
Write the kind of story
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.
Anne Lamott