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> [As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rosanne-cash/as-i-started-writing-about-loss-and-grief-i-was-taking-what-felt/)

[Rosanne Cash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rosanne-cash/)

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> [There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that was lost, develop the character of the fiancee. There's another strategy that one can employ, maybe riskier... Make…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/junot-diaz/there-are-a-couple-of-strategies-for-writing-about-an-absence-or/)

[Junot Diaz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/junot-diaz/)

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