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> [Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/here-s-the-secret-of-writing-there-is-no-secret/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

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## More by Ralph Fletcher

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/if-you-want-to-write-poetry-you-must-have-poems-that-deeply-move-you/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/you-don-t-learn-to-write-by-going-through-a-series-of-preset-writing/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/writing-becomes-beautiful-when-it-becomes-specific-concrete/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/when-students-write-from-experience-they-can-breathe-those-specifics/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/poems-are-the-daredevil-of-writing-because-a-poem-will-say-what/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/use-your-notebook-to-breathe-in-the-world-around-you/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [“The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/the-real-meaning-of-a-poem-is-to-stop-time/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/good-writing-happens-when-human-beings-follow-particular-steps-to/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/it-s-misleading-to-think-of-writers-as-special-creatures-word/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/g-k-chesterton-once-said-if-something-is-worth-doing-it-is-worth/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/when-someone-you-love-dies-you-get-a-big-bowl-of-sadness-put-down-in/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/here-s-the-secret-of-writing-there-is-no-secret/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

> [A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-fletcher/a-notebook-can-be-a-clearing-in-the-forest-of-your-life-a-place-where/)

[Ralph Fletcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-fletcher/)

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