GHISLAINE LEFRANC

WRITER, EDITOR, TRANSLATOR

I’ve had a lifelong love affair with language. Books were my first best friends. Blank notebook pages, my first confidant. Yes, I can tell you why that comma goes there. And, yes, I can be a stickler for every grammar rule in the book, if you’d like. I can craft a pithy one-liner that packs a punch or draft a lengthy case study that focuses only on the facts. No matter your brand, your product, your mandate—I’ve got you.

Whatever the story, let’s tell it together.

WORK

  • We write to taste life twice—in the moment and in retrospect.

    —Anaïs Nin

  • Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

    —John Waters

  • You have to be on fire with the idea of words.

    —David Sedaris

  • Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

    —Truman Capote

  • The function of writing is to explode one’s subject—transform it into something else. Writing is a series of transformations.

    —Susan Sontag

  • Easy reading is damn hard writing.

    —Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • I’ve found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.

    —Don Roff

  • I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.

    —Jesmyn Ward