A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play with outrage and wonder, details and gossip, language and dreams, plots and subplots, perceptions and small… — 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
