To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.
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Terry Tempest Williams
You have to follow your own voice. You have to be yourself when you write. In effect, you have to announce, 'This is me, this is what I stand for, this is what you get when you read me. I'm doing the best I can...
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David Morrell
...if you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone...
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John Geddes
I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking.
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Laurie Halse Anderson
All I have is a voice.
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W.h. Auden
More Quotes By Muriel Spark
For those who like that sort of thing, " said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches,...
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work .. the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly...
To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.
