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My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes. ↗

— Wanda Lea Brayton

#poetry #writing #youth #love

Out of silence I begin to hear the voices of characters whispering snippets of a story to me. ↗

— Chuck Waldron

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If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better. ↗

— Ted Atoka

#lifestyle #success #work #writing #business

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps. ↗

— michael p naughton

#entrepreneurship #movie-business #writing #business

Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you are going to write your own books and not somebody else's. Not even those books of the somebody else you thought it was your express business to spruce yourself up to be. ↗

— Patricia Hampl

#inspirational #writing #business

Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about. ↗

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others. ↗

— Jack Gantos

#inspirational #writing-books #change

A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough and smooth. At its core lies soft marrow of hard, white bone. A story beats with the heart of every person who has ever strained ears to listen. On the breath of the storyteller, it soars. Until its images and deeds become so real you can see them in the air, shimmering like oases on the horizon line. A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

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The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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It's my experience that you first feel the impulse to write in your chest. It's like falling in love, only more so. It feels like something criminal. It feels like unspeakably wild sex. So, think: When you feel the overpowering need to go out and find some unspeakably wild sex, do you rush to tell your mom about it? ↗

— Carolyn See

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