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The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation Into the Writing Life

by Julia Cameron

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Ilze said: " 18.03.25 >> reading it again!

This book beats The Artist's Way by a long mark! Cameron's enthusiasm for writing and keeping at it hits you on every page - honestly, I can only praise it along with the little exercises at the end of every chapter. ...more "

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On Literature

by Umberto Eco

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“I opened my veins. Unstoppably
life spurts out with no remedy.
Now I set out bowls and plates.
Every bowl will be shallow.
Every plate will be small.

And overflowing their rims,
into the black earth, to nourish
the rushes unstoppably
without cure, gushes
poetry ...”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems

tags: poetry

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“Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far ...”
― Anne Sexton

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“Ek is meer bekommerd dat daar nie meer bome vir papier is nie as wat ek bekommerd is oor die toekoms van Afrikaans.”
― Eleanor Baker

tags: conservation, language

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“We set out on the trail of a murderous monster and ended up face to face with a frightened child.”
― Caleb Carr

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“Some things do not bear telling. I think my father knew this. I think he knew how words can sometimes flatten the deepest emotions or pin them like wild butterflies stunned out of magnificent flight, flimsiest souvenirs of what moved and coloured air like silk. Better to imagine it.”
― Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love

tags: love-power-of-words

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