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The best advice on writing I’ve ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming. DAVID GUTERSON
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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
- I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if ...
- What may be done at any time will be done at no ti...
- There are two ways of spreading light: to be the c...
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by re...
- Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silenc...
- 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...
- Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what ...
- 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, ...
- The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnin...
- Writing - the act of one person giving a piece of ...
- The creative adult is the child who survived.
- Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, ...
- I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live ...
- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin...
- Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding ...
- Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take dow...
- Mr. Dispatch
- [Where ideas come from?] My standard answer is 'I ...
- You need to be in the world and you need to be eng...
- What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessi...
- Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of ...
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