A Writer’s Job Is Ingoing

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About nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We have been taught to be ashamed of not being outgoing. But a writer’s job is ingoing. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Read Interesting Minds

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By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Painting Is Poetry

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Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Stories Are Incredibly Important

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Stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in. ~ Neil Gaiman