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Archive for May, 2008

I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
- Pearl S. Buck

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“When we read, we stat at the beginning and continue until we reach the end.  When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.”

-Vickie Karp

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Two friends are fighting and there’s nothing I can do about it. I have an opinion, sure, but I can’t interfere and the discord is killing me. Although this is something I know they have to sort out between themselves, knowing that there is nothing I can do hurts. In the meantime, I sit back [...]

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Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning:  I wanted to know what I was going to say. 
~Sharon O’Brien

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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man’s life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible. 
~Leo Tolstoy
 

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I wandered through Stockbridge this morning, dodging prams and toy dogs on leads, joggers and people strolling by. The sun was out, clear skies and 21 degrees. It’s been the nicest day we’ve had all year. Some builders had the radio on in their van and as I walked passed I heard the news say [...]

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Writers are just people who have a whole lot on the inside that they need to get to the outside, with pen and paper as their preferred method of transport.  Same with dancers, artists, and singers - all the same urges with differing transportation. 
~Graycie Harmon

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When I emerged from the Filmhouse at 3am, I was a twitching little wreck. Three nights and days of horror films had exposed me to the sick and twisted possibilities of the human mind and I was left fascinated by what I had seen. Eye-puncturing acts with a paper clip, a child decapitated by a [...]

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Without a pen I feel naked, but it’s writing that is my exhibitionism. 
~Carrie Latet

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