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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to…
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No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of…
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all…
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This because it is never really very cold in England. It is drizzly, and the wind will blow; hail happens, and there…
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It was in the air, or so it seemed to Kiki, this hatred of women and their bodies- it seeped in with…
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A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is…
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
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What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know…
— Ernest Becker
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When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women,…
— Neil Gaiman
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No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal…
— Ansel Adams
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures…
— Cecil Beaton
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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
— Henri Bergson
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