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No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much.’Bell Hooks
My best advice about writer’s block is the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly. By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much less within our control than the goals we set. And since it’s the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable [fountain] of material.Dan Harmon
Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.George Orwell
Animal Farm
Mr. Jones, of Manor Farm, had locked the hen-house for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut down the popholes.George Orwell
Animal Farm
Mother died today.Albert Camus
The Stranger
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.Stephen King
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.Virginia Woolf
Linnet Ridgeway! "That's Her." said Mr. Burnaby, the landlord of the Three Crowns.Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile
Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.Sylvia Plath
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