I write because I want to tell myself things, and I don’t know what it is I have to tell until I’ve written it. Sometimes I surprise and please myself. But I’m scared what comes out will reveal an uninteresting, unsophisticated or unlikeable self. So, most often, I don’t write.
Cathy Johnson
We are what we write.
No hiding, no escape.
Must now shake off my lawyer past.
No more “subject to this” and “subject to that.”
Stop using three words where one will do.
No more hiding.
But without that cloak, I am exposed.
Like a peeled onion.
Charles Woodhouse
I like polishing sentences like stones, paring away till the end result is less, but hopefully more.
I like to be creative with the furniture of a sentence.
I’d like to learn the business of plot and pace, momentum and push. I’d like to finish what I start.
Kit Hollings
Like all powerful medicine writing has side effects. I started in order to understand, join dots, make sense. Clarity would have sufficed but a different imperative has thrust itself upon me. I am unblinded and yet dumbfounded, rendered silent by an uncompromising beauty. The wordless knowledge of what is real.
Julie Carter
Mungrisdale Writers 