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Do not Assume
you don't know what work these conditions are doin...
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
love the questions
Perhaps everything that frightens us...
seeing each other as a whole
Amy Hempel
the classic scene
they are all like that
Supper
Enrich your Life
Perfectionism
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. C...
Three things in life – your health, your mission, ...
Action will destroy your procrastination. Og Mandino
Start before you’re ready. Steven Pressfield
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New Neighbor
William Maxwell: A writer is a reader who is moved...
My father represented authority, which meant—to me...
The back of the men’s necks was a mahogany color, ...
The reason life is so strange is that so often peo...
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Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all t...
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of fri...
Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stu...
When you are sixteen
every situation in which human beings are involved...
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a...
Richard Ford, Independence Day
What's friendship's realest measure? I'll tell you...
If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cur...
take it seriously
Dear Jean...
one serves as a vessel and a voice
New Hazard
Hungarian Parking Lot Soup
Aphrodite Kallipygos
Nick Cave's Red Hand Files
Yesterday or Callipygian
Know your true measurements and dress your mind ac...
One day a long time from now you'll cease to care ...
I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll ...
J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect peop...
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to d...
Poets are always taking the weather so personally....
The world is full of actors pretending to be human.
Kurt Vonnegut
Early morning rising before the sun
Lindsey Heatherly
The Call
Refreshing
Comedians and Jazz Musicians
bodily and spiritual nourishment
I believe that reading and writing are the most no...
Keep away from people who try to belittle your amb...
If you advance confidently in the direction of you...
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are...
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experien...
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Ou...
Those who danced were considered to be quite insan...
Alice Walker: The most common way people give up t...
When you dance to your own rhythm, people may not ...
The House Tour
Every story I create, creates me. I write to creat...
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulf...
You just have to keep getting out of your own way ...
I believe that there's a force of life in the univ...
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to...
Every author ought to write every book as if he we...
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist ...
Gore Vidal
continually visited and abandoned by the tides
Muscular
I have to write to be happy whether I get paid for...
Good story ideas seem to come quite literally from...
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulat...
James Baldwin
I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as...
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but...
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then t...
When I sit down to write, I do not say to myself, ...
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The creative adult is the child who survived.
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Mr. Dispatch
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that. Richard Ford
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