Life Takes Detours

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. William Wordsworth

Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating. Anne Lamott

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. Allen Ginsberg

It’s all about letting the story take over. Robert Stone

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape. Allan Gurganus

The unconscious creates, the ego edits. Stanley Kunitz

I truly think that you can’t go and stalk your material, you have to leave the door open and whatever chooses you, chooses you. You can’t go and wrestle it to the ground. Louise Erdrich

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him. Rachel Carson

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver

The best time for planning a book is when you're doing the dishes. Agatha Christie

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.Henry David Thoreau"

We don't write what we know. We write what we wonder about. Richard Peck

A novel is a mirror walking along the main road. Stendhal