Quote: Open a Vein
- Jun, 08 2007
- By Belinda
- About Writing
- One comment
There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
- Red Smith
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Bleeding on the page @ Belinda Kroll, Quirky Victorian Romance
[...] career. But these intense moments of emotion which run roughshod over my lens of the world seems to open the very vein I need to bleed words onto the page. That raw emotion which tugs at heartstrings and makes people think of their own heartbreak. [...]