I recently saw this tweet from PeakePoetics: “A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.” -Dylan Thomas #poettalk I adore poetry, but I know it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Still, we’ve chatted about poetry from time to time here. [...]

I caught this quote and knew it would be perfect here at Working Writers. Most writers love reading.

There are some days a person just has trouble getting the words out. It happens to every writer. Here’s a perfect quote to think of the next time it happens to you:

As writers, we often look at the imperfections of life as our inspiration. I love that. After all, what in life is really perfect? Besides that, it isn’t the perfect characters that are the most interesting, it’s the flawed ones. The ones that really need to get over it, or get on with it, or [...]

We writers are such dreamers, aren’t we? We have to be. We have to come up with new and different ideas, and more importantly, make an effort to put that dream to paper so others can read it.

Here’s a great quote that applies to the writing life.

Here’s a quote that definitely applies to writers:

Here is a perfect quote for writers today:

This is a humorous quote from an awesome writer: I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard So true, and yet… so difficult to do. (This is where having a great editor is really worth it.) Image: sxc.hu.