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> [I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are times when one can't write, one shouldn't write, times for thought, for deepening, or just reading,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to-write-all-the-time-wasn-t-i/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

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## More by Stanley Crawford

> [Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/winter-is-the-time-of-promise-because-there-is-so-little-to-do-or/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/next-to-blood-relationships-come-water-relationships/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/to-dream-a-garden-and-then-to-plant-it-is-an-act-of-independence-and/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [“Often he vanished for days down the spiral staircase into the engine-room to overhaul the weary machinery, leaving me with a curt note tacked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/often-he-vanished-for-days-down-the-spiral-staircase-into-the-engine/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/perhaps-it-was-maggie-perhaps-not-in-solitary-moments-magpies-will/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [“So that where I once did not know who or what you were, now I wonder who I or we are, or what. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/so-that-where-i-once-did-not-know-who-or-what-you-were-now-i-wonder/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [I was a new writer and I was supposed to write all the time, wasn't I? I had not yet discovered that there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/i-was-a-new-writer-and-i-was-supposed-to-write-all-the-time-wasn-t-i/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [“Finally when he climbed below deck after dark, wondering where his dinner was, perhaps with a storm come up and rough seas and blinding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/finally-when-he-climbed-below-deck-after-dark-wondering-where-his/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [“So what about you?"  I would conclude. "What about your life?  Is it organically lived?"  Here I might pause to summon up the courage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/so-what-about-you-i-would-conclude-what-about-your-life-is-it/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

> [There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-crawford/there-is-always-something-rough-and-tumble-about-planting-because/)

[Stanley Crawford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-crawford/)

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