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Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it

No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks

I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. -Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools

all novels, that is to say, deal with character, and that it is to express character -- not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate the glories of the British Empire -- that the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved

I don't fuck around with titles. I come up with them immediately and then don't ever think about changing them....I've stockpiled them.

We read to know we are not alone

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story...to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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“How To Do Things With Fictions” by Joshua Landy

We should all just come out and admit it: 'morally improving' (literature) is merely a compliment we pay to works whose values agree with ours....Fictions preach only to the converted Joshua Landy, How To Do Things With Fictions

Matt Caprioli

Matt Caprioli

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“How To Do Things With Fictions” by Joshua Landy