By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
– Pablo Neruda
Word Ferret: Writing Prompts, Book Reviews, and Short Stories
Writing inspiration and writing prompts in the never-ending battle against writer's block
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
– Pablo Neruda
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
– Gustave Flaubert
Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Paul Valery
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens
Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear – and devils, too. ~Terri Guillemets
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. ~John Cheever
There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world. – John Fowles
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else. – Gloria Steinem
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium. ~Norbet Platt