Ralph Fletcher Quotes

• 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 that truly matters to you.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Real, Writing, Learning

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• Use your notebook to breathe in the world around you.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Notebook, Use, World

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• Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Secret

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• 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 ordinary people who like to write. They feel the urge to write, and they scratch that itch every chance they get.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Ralph Fletcher (2010). “How Writers Work: Finding a Process That Works for You”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• Si quieres escribir poesía, debes tener poemas que te conmuevan profundamente. Poemas sin los que no puedas vivir. Pienso en un poema como en la sangre de una transfusión, que va del corazón del poeta al corazón del lector. Busca poemas que vivan dentro de ti, poemas que se muevan por tus venas.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Conmover, escribir, corazón

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• When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Tired, Names

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• La buena escritura se produce cuando los seres humanos siguen determinados pasos para controlar sus frases, para hacer que sus palabras hagan lo que ellos quieren que hagan.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Want, Steps

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• Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing
  because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Writing, Want, Daredevil

  Ralph Fletcher (2010). “Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• 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 seems to me vastly more important that a student try a new technique in her writing, and use it imperfectly, than never try the technique at all.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Philosophy, Writing, Important

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• Writing becomes beautiful when it becomes specific, concrete.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Beautiful, Writing, Concrete

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• 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 way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Sadness, Hot, Someone You Love

  "Fig Pudding". Book by Ralph Fletcher, September 3, 2013.

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• The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

  Ralph Fletcher

  Real, Stop Time

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