“Writing starts with living.Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”

“We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”

“Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”

“One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.“Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire,” Laura returned.“Writing for me,” Megan had typed.“I...”

“Maybe you didnt need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didnt need to delve into some kind of life question you knew youd lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do the j...”

“She meant you have to live a story for a time.''And?''And then you can write it, in time. What have you lived?''Kind of a personal question for Twitterland.''Kind of the perfect question to answer ...”

“Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need to delve into some kind of life question you knew you’d lived. Perhaps your subconscious would do th...”

“A new novel awaits my arrival, prepares for my careful inspection. Yet a novel is always a long dream that lives in me for years before I know where to go to hunt it out.”

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there ...”

“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending t...”

“Have tea, might write, Laura returned.”

“Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!”