Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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Willa Cather
This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I...
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Jandy Nelson
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role,...
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Erin Morgenstern
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
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Doris Lessing
[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool — it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.
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Homer
More Quotes By Erwin Raphael McManus
Who told you that you were naked? Who have you been listening to?.' This is a tragic reminder that we humans have the strange capacity to live a soulless life. Our inner voice was never supposed to be simply an echo. Our inner voice was...
All art is an expression and extension of ourselves.. Art finds its deepest value when it is the authentic expression of a deep human experience.
When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions.
Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.
Most of us are still in some small way victims of the Industrial Revolution. Whether through our grandparents, our parents, or our own experience, we were raised to believe that our place in life required compliance and conformity rather than creativity and uniqueness. We have...
