If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
Interpretation
To become a writer, dedication and awareness of your surroundings are essential.
This quote emphasizes that writing is a daily practice that requires both commitment and keen observation. It suggests that stories exist all around us, and by nurturing our creativity and being attentive to our environment, we can uncover and share these narratives.
In practice
In a writing workshop, a facilitator might share this quote to inspire daily writing practices.
If you sit down and read with your kid, either having your child read to you or you reading to your child at a regular time each day, it deepens the relationship. You don't have to talk about stuff; the story will do that work for you.
I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays. And also bought me books. And also read aloud to me.
There is no right or wrong way to tell a story. You have to find your own way. You can get your idea from listening, looking, or imagining. Stories are everywhere. All you have to do is pay attention.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
I have no talents. But I do have hope. And wonder. And love. Maybe those are talents?
I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
Let’s be realistic about this, the guitar can be the single most blasphemous device on the face of the earth. That’s why I like it . . . The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar: now that’s my idea of a good time.
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.
My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting.
I think it's important that everybody has access to music, and not just people who live in cities or who can afford to drive to the nearest city.
What inspires a poem for me is usually a moment.
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