“Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotch-potch of impulses, our perpetual miracle.”—Virginia Woolf
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Quote of the Week
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“What you want to do is write the best book you can write. There is no timeline to that. Do the best you can do with what you have. Get rid of the timeline.”—Gail Tsukiyama
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“Find the entry point that will hold up … and the voice that will sustain the work.”—Dorothy Allison
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“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.”—Isadora Duncan
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“I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.”—Shilo Shiv Suleman
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I’m a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.—Sherman Alexie
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“We have always been the storytellers, we are the mothers after all, the ones who speak the cultural narrative.”—Ellen McLaughlin
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“You can tell someone is beautiful by the attention you give to description. You should give that kind of love to everything you describe.”—Janet Fitch
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“We are all allowed to grow and experiment with different things. Remembering that there is not just one audience, but several (ideal, actual, and potential), can be liberating.”—Evie Shockley
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