The Saturday Writing Quote

“Creative writing is not an escape. It’s the opposite. Fiction demands that we dive headfirst into puddles of conflict others might choose to sidestep. It asks that we scratch and dig until we unearth emotional truths, and then find a way to convey them so that a reader we’ve never met can share the same journey.”

– Kathryn Craft, on Writer Unboxed: Seeking Truth in Fiction, 1/10/19

(painting: The Barn, pastel on sandpaper, by me)

Saturday Writing quote

The Wheeling Year: A Poet's Field Book

Speaking of April:

“Month of my birth. What record do we poets leave? Not on stone tablets, but in books like leaves that have matted together under the snows of indifference. That we were fretful, mostly, but that now and then we looked up and glimpsed something wonderful passing away.”

– Ted Kooser, in The Wheeling Year: A Poet’s Field Book (2014; Univ of Nebraska Press)