Writing is like loving. It's the most incredible feeling, it's a dangerous feeling and it will consume you if you let it. But if you're a writer, your soul thrives on it.
Writers ache for love. We open our arms and invite the passion into our bones without a second glance. Sometimes it's loud, breaking the doors down with every ounce of its power like thunder and lightning, and sometimes it's the most silent, shown only with our lips and eyes. Writing is that first glance of sunlight when we wake up in the morning to see the cup of coffee we hold in our hand. steaming. Waiting for us to indulge.
Don't love a writer unless you can handle the fact that when they look at you, no matter what you look like, they will see poetry.
Don't love them unless you're willing to expose yourself to them, and trust them with the flaws that haunt you. Don't love them if you're unable to express how much you ache to hold their hands and kiss their lips ever so gently. Writers have a tendency to put the people in their lives that mean the most to them in their stories and poems, and if you can't recognize that, don't love a writer. Don't love them until you understand that every time they hear you laugh, they will instantly reach for their notebook and dedicate an entire page to that laugh. Don't love a writer until you've read their heart.
