Posts by Elle LaMarca

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” — Anne Frank   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a good start to your…

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” — Sylvia Plath   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a…

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.” — William H. Gass   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a good start to…

“I think there is a necessity to be still sometimes and let life happen to you, to let your manner of being in the world be changed by what happens…

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a good start to your week. In this newsletter:…

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a good start to your week. In this newsletter: A writing prompt to inspire…

“Write what should not be forgotten.” — Isabel Allende   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a good start to your week. In this newsletter: A writing prompt to inspire…

“The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.” — Flannery O’Connor   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a…

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” — Albert Camus   Dear Writer, I hope you’re having a good start to your week. In this…