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When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.


Sherman Alexie


#admire #author #note #piece #read

The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet.


Sherman Alexie


#enjoy #form #forms #i #into

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.


Jean M. Auel


#like #myself #please #read #started

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.


Isabel Allende


#i #i have learned #learned #many #things

The skeleton key unlocks the mind and swings open the door of imagination. A far better place than here A much safer place than there The quintessential somewhere The mystical nowhere The enigmatic anywhere My gift to you - the key to everywhere. The mortal will find itself lost while the soul always knows the way it is grateful for the darkness and celebrates the day I can give you peace my peace I give you... but I cannot be your savior or your god - I cannot be the light along your path - I can only give you the lamp and point the way. The blind will see... the deaf will hear... but those who choose reason will never understand. Woe to the ones who think they know the answers they will cease to ask the questions that may be their own salvation. We possess the knowledge of the Universe from conception. Once born we are taught to forget. If we cannot look out at our world and see our children's vision then we are truly blind we are unable to lead them to paradise. "Even people who are in the dark search for their shadows. Shadows exist only if there is light. We will never find total darkness - not even in death... ...and we always cast a shadow no matter how overcast our skies become. You are never alone." Do not listen to the voice that shouts to you from behind desks behind podiums behind altars. Do not pay attention to the orators and the opportunists. Do not be distracted by the promises made behind masks. Listen to the quiet. Listen to the whispers as they gently guide you through the assaults of man's absurdities. Listen to the gentle breathing of your mother and lay your head to rest in her peace and in her warm embrace and understand that truth and power lie within you. Breathe silence. The free bird will always return to the cage sooner or later to seek food and water and the loving hand of it's caretaker.


M. Teresa Clayton


#black-dog-hat #dark-ambient #m-teresa-clayton #macabre #morose

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.


Tori Amos


#i #just #living #living room #me

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.


David Amram


#authority #blake #classic #ginsberg #had

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.


Trey Anastasio


#context #dreamed #everything #finish #hear

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.


Naveen Andrews


#casting #color #directors #easy #films

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.


Piers Anthony


#be different #because #bound #did #different






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