✽𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬✽

𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬|| ❝Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.❞ ~ Ben Franklin

❝On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.❞ ~ Annie Dillard

❝What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.❞ ~ Samuel Johnson

❝Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.❞ ~ Barbara Kingsolver

❝The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.❞ ~ Edwin SchlossbergIf

❝writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.❞ ~ Elaine Liner

❝The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.❞ ~ Anaïs Nin

❝If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.❞ ~ Toni Morrison

❝Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.❞ ~ William Wordsworth

❝Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.❞ ~ Anton Chekhov

❝Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.❞ ~ Orson Scott Card

❝To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.❞ ~ Truman Capote ||

A book containing all my short stories and poems......