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“Would I have carried myself with the same swagger, or faced adversity with such feminine resolve, without Albertine as my...
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Wise words from Dolly Parton
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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.”
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“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (via youngmanandoldsoul)
(via awelltraveledwoman)
Sarah Polley is such an inspiration to me as a writer, even more so since I saw “Take This Waltz,” which she wrote and directed. The story and characters are original and complex; the last 30 minutes of the movie are particularly thought-provoking as it moves beyond where most end. Here’s one of my favorite Sarah Polley quotes from a recent Q&A:
“…putting an original story out into the world is terrifying and thrilling. You can’t anticipate how people will respond.”
You can read the read of the Twitter Q&A here.
“Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life.”
– Lawrence Kasdan
This post by poet Cam Scott is a must read. As in, go read it now. Right now: Cheek Teeth: Beats, Bards, and Barbarians: It’s a Group Thing
You haven’t clicked over yet? Here’s an except:
“It is strange to think that something as personally generative and craft-oriented as writing, might require that the writer belong to a group or movement. … But over and over, of all the strange demands I’ve intuited as a writer and poet, the pull to group up, group out, and find community is the strangest.”
Now go read.
Thirty years later, a first soccer game. This story tells me anything is possible. What would your do-over be?
(via Do-over | PFM Reports)
If you’re interested in the burgeoning form of criticism as memoir, check out J.C. Hallman’s anthology, The Story About The Story.
“I give you virtually everything I have. I give you all the best things I have, and while these things are things that I like, memories that I treasure, good or bad, like the pictures of my family on my walls, I can show them to you without diminishing them. I can afford to give you everything.”
Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via bookmania)
I want to live (and write) here.
(via thesearepeopleyouknow)
