Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.
The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.
If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn by love. What a miracle she was, what a truly exquisite paragon of beauty and virtue so incredibly combined. And all perhaps wrenched from my ...