My poems are dedicated to the Lord from up above. Without him nothing is possible.  My family, my friends, & those of you that appriciate life's blessings & troubles!
Love always, *Monica Santiago*

"Every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him."
-Sigmund Freud

"...think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in thought or afterwards in a recasting."
-Gertude Stein

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you are finished reading on eyou will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you:  the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.  If you can getso that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
-Hemingway-By Line; "Old Newsman Writes:  A Letter From Cuba." (pg.184)

"Like a child at play, the creative writer expends his emotions (libido energy) into a world of make-believe.  In serious fantasy he fulfills his wishes withoutembarrassment, allowing his reader to do the same."
-Sigmund Freud