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“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to …”
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.
– Barbara Kingsolver, writer
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What they call you . . .
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton.
via Inspirational Quote # 338 — Today, You Will Write
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A Genius !
A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
~ Pablo de Sarasate
via Inspirational Quote # 531 — Today, You Will Write
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Stories . . .
People think [detective stories] more ingenious than they are—on account of their method and air of method…Where is the ingenuity in unraveling a web which you yourself…have woven for the express purpose of unraveling? —Edgar Allan Poe, in a letter to Philip Pendelton Cooke
via Quote of the Day — Alec Nevala-Lee
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Ask yourself . . .
Stop asking yourself what you want, what you desire, what interests you. Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back? Then give it.
Cheryl Strayed. Taken from Brave Enough.
via Inspirational Quote # 395 — Today, You Will Write
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George Orwell
“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”— George Orwell
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Actually I Can.
Addiction . . .
“There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is…”
“There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.”
–Winslow Homer, painter, American
