Quotes by : L.L. Barkat

Writing starts with living.—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.“Writing for tea? Now that would....

She meant you have to live a story for a time.''And?''And then you can write it, in time. What have you....

Had Mary Shelley fretted so? Maybe yes, maybe no. She’d begun her classic work on a dare. Had culled....

If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming....

If Laura was so prolific with poems, and in truth she was, then what was the problem with Megan’s request?....

We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late....

Maybe you didn’t need to know anything special to write a work of fiction. Maybe you didn’t need....

You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame....

Maybe Laura’s real problem came in admitting this: there was nothing new under the sun. To write a....