“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
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… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating… — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
