December 2011
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“Sometimes a story interests me too much, for one reason or another, simply to...”
– Peter S. Beagle
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“… what I could say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring...”
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
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“I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.”
– ~John Updike (via karanablue)
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Writing is a risky business.
“To nonwriters, personal risk in writing sounds very bizarre. After all, we’re not ice climbing or running the Colorado River in a raft made of three planks. We’re sitting down and moving our hands. Not so much risk there. But the risk of writing is an internal risk. You brave the depths of your own being and then, oh my, bring it up for commentary by the world. Not the work of wimps.”
-Laraine...
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