How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.
All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing. - Ellen Gilchrist
All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.
- Ellen Gilchrist
I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held th… - Ellen Gilchrist
I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held th…
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or fat… - Ellen Gilchrist
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or fat…
Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does. - Ellen Gilchrist
Cuddle up. Rain always stops. It always stops. It always does.
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you … - Ellen Gilchrist
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you …
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income. - Ellen Gilchrist
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.
We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, ai… - Ellen Gilchrist
We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, ai…
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past. - Ellen Gilchrist
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by fri… - Ellen Gilchrist
My main home is in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a college town in the Ozark Mountains. I live on the highest hill in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by fri…
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