“Words begin to flow when the writer is no longer thinking about words themselves, but rather is seeing in his or her mind some concrete image. An image, not an abstraction, is the deepest wellspring of writing.”
This quote comes from Pat Schneider’s book, Writing Alone & With Others, which I’ve been reading with my first coffee these mornings. Not a new book—it was published in 2003—it has been on my “to read” list for quite some time. What finally moved it from the “to read” list to my morning table was the reading of another of Schneider’s books, How the Light Gets In–Writing as a Spiritual Practice, which was my morning book just before Writing Alone and With Others. I highly recommend both books.