Being a writer is understanding how you can love your book, be willing to die for every word, think it’s perfect and yet at the same time wonder how far you’d have to fling your book into the sea so that the tide doesn’t drag it back.
– Meredith Ireland
Tag: word
Quotable 352
Word choice stands at the center of the practice of writing. This is particularly true for poetry, and even more so for haiku. Simply put, the choice of a word can make or break a poem.
– David Grayson
Quotable 185
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
– Catherine Drinker Bowen