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If we grew up with nothing, we're complicated with that. That's the thing I keep hearing from people.
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Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
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I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it.
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I did want to feel like life's all of one piece.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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It's easier in an urban world to cast the blame outward. So I've learned a lot about my own process in that way.
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Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.
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Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.
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The truth is in the present moment.
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I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.
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Our pain is a part of who we authentically are.
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The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.
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Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
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You can start your day over anytime.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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Courage is more important than confidence
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My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never got to say goodbye.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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Apparently, using two spaces after a period has become anachronistic. But tell that to my right thumb. -
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Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.
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When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
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I was doing a lot of yoga and learning to meditate, and I found that extremely helpful, and still do and hopefully always will.
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Recognize the possibility of the divine in any given moment.
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All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies.
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My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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What she doesn't realize is that I have survived for her as well -- and only now am I beginning to survive for myself.
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In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.
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There is no end to the promotion. There is no end to the possibilities. You can continue to promote a book for years, literally.
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What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.
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What was going on inside of me became louder because everything around me became quieter.
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We are tyrannized by our options.
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With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
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We don't choose what's going to wake us up.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
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Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel.
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Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
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Moving to the country has been incredibly good for my work, for my sense of perspective.
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I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.
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We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.
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Traces that live within us often lead us to our stories
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I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
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Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.
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As a writer we are our own instruments; we need to protect our instrument, because no one will protect it if we don't.
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I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.
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In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.
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I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.
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