Glory In Each Day

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I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain. ~ Sylvia Plath

Write While The Heat Is In You

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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. ~ Henry David Thoreau

You Make Something

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You make something from the things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something… ~ Ernest Hemingway

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

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

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You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.