Joan

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin