Ralph Fletcher Writing Quotes & Sayings

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing
because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. — Ralph Fletcher

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities. — Voltaire

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first. — Oscar Wilde

I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I got older, my tastes developed a little bit more, and I would follow certain writers; like, I really got into Grant Morrison. From the time I was 5, I was into comic books. From the time I learned how to read, it was all about comic books. — Corey Taylor

If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins. — Ralph Fletcher

His hot breath fanned her skin. "At this pace, you're going to beg me to make you come in about five minutes or less." His voice deepened. "I'll stop long enough for your passion to cool and we'll start again. I can do this for hours until you're drenched in sweat and hurting so bad to come that you'll tell me anything I want to know just to make the agony stop. It will turn into that." "That's mean. — Laurann Dohner

My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City. — David Maraniss

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing. — Dalai Lama

I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like explore other styles of music. — Billie Joe Armstrong

You don't learn to write by going through a series of preset writing exercises. You learn to write by grappling with a real subject that truly matters to you. — Ralph Fletcher

Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete. — Ralph Fletcher

When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text. — Ralph Fletcher

I'm going to take you back to our room. I'm going to bend you over the end of our fucking bed, and I'm going to fill you so full of me you'll be screaming in a Boston accent. — Abigail Roux

As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. — John Shelby Spong

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get. — Ralph Fletcher

We have a mutual friend, see, and she- Ah, screw it. This is Gideon. When would it be convenient for you to die? — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to do. — Ralph Fletcher

If your opinion needs to be corrected than it is not your opinion. — Kim Yannayon

G.K. Chesterton once said: If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. I live by this philosophy when I teach writing. It seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all. — Ralph Fletcher

Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret. — Ralph Fletcher

Leadership requires passion. — Eric Schmidt

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life. — Nelson Mandela

Indeed, that is the nature of crowds: the mob is either a humble slave or a cruel aster. As for the middle way of liberty, the mob can neither take it nor keep it with any respect for moderation or law. — Livy