1.
Enter the writing process with a childlike sense of wonder and discovery. Let it surprise you.
Charles Ghigna
2.
Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
Charles Ghigna
3.
A poem is a spider web
Spun with words of wonder,
Woven lace held in place
By whispers made of thunder.
Charles Ghigna
4.
The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.
Charles Ghigna
5.
Don't search for inspiration when you have a task to do; Just start your work and you will see that it will soon find you.
Charles Ghigna
6.
Close your eyes and look inside,
A mirror shines within;
To find where you are going,
First see where you have been.
Charles Ghigna
7.
Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer.
Charles Ghigna
8.
The greatest reward for a children's author is in knowing that our efforts might stir the minds and hearts of young readers with a vision and wonder of the world and themselves that may be new to them or reveal something already familiar in new and enlightening ways.
Charles Ghigna
9.
When you write for children, don't write for children.
Write from the child in you.
Charles Ghigna
10.
They say that love is always blind and that explains so much, young lovers always seem so prone to use their sense of touch.
Charles Ghigna
11.
STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE
Charles Ghigna
12.
I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
Charles Ghigna
