"This is writing. You cut out chunks of……" — Holly Lisle
"This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives."
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16 Quotes by Holly Lisle
Holly Lisle has 16 quotes on this site.
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Courage is nothing more than taking one step more than you think you can.
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You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you…
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If you have dreams you want to pursue, the time is now. There is no perfect time, and there is…
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Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.
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Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things…
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Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible…
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The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
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The definition of a writing career, is write a book, write another book, write another book
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Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you,…
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Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear,…
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I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right…
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I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is…
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So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart…
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You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn,…
— Alanis Morissette
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You gonna do somethin'? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
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A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill…
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If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the…
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Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war
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I ain't got time to bleed.
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For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where…
— Augusten Burroughs
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It's just I might get distracted, and I get lost kind of easily, and sometimes I have really bad days...when,…
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