“Willa Cather said that she write best when she stopped trying to write and began simply to remember.”
“All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.”
“I suggested to her that she start writing. "I can't write at all," she said. "Neither can many bestsellers," I replied. "But that pesky detail didn't stop them.”
“Sometimes,' she said, remembering that morning, 'I write poems that are taller than I am”
“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
“Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.”