L.L. Barkat

“Writing starts with living.

—Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”
― L.L. Barkat

“Writing starts with living.”
― L. L. Barkat, Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

“We will need to find people who will provide a safe writing space for us, where criticism comes late and love and delight come early.

—from Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing”
― L.L. Barkat

“Maybe the real problem wasn’t that she had nothing to write about, but that she had too much. Maybe she wasn’t afraid of her finiteness after all, but rather Infinity and how it called her to begin somewhere, anywhere. To begin might be an acceptance that indeed she was some kind of creator, with tremendous powers.

It might mean taking people’s lives into her hands–her own life, her friends’, even her father’s or mother’s. And maybe she was afraid they would think she had animated a wandering Frankenstein no one wanted to hold.”
― L.L. Barkat, The Novelist