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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.


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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.



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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.



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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do



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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.



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You are always someones favorite unfolding story



Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.



I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.



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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.



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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.





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