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.


Falling Through Space (ed. Open Road Media, 2013) - ISBN: 9781480432383

Ellen Gilchrist Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...