I Wanted To Know What I Was Going To Write.

(Waiting... for a story to unfold)

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

- Vita Sackville-West


A photograph may capture an image but it needs the accompanying words to bring the story to life.

- Ghostwise

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Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.

- Sharon O'Brien


You will be the one most surprised by what you have written.

- Ghostwise

To Make A Great Flower Out Of Cactus.

(Today a friend sent me a picture of a cactus flower and asked "Isn't it pretty?" This is dedicated to those who appreciate its beauty)

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

- Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005


Some plants die from too much nurturing. They thrive better if left alone.

- Ghostwise

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“Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.”

- Enid Bagnold


Have I answered "Why do you write?".

- Ghostwise

Can One Be A Poet If He Doesn't Write A Single Line?

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

- George Sand, 1851


A true poet is one who took delights in poetry, not necessarily one writes it.

- Ghostwise

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

- Robert Penn Warren


Poetry are meant to be enjoyed with the heart not the mind.

- Ghostwise