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#1

“There was a time when I was a wee one in age, life was happening. Good or bad, it was my stage. Now that I am older, I realize only I can write the page before life ends and I will have lost the chance to engage.”
― Lyn Crain, In My Shoes: My Poetic Journey from Abuse to Victory

tags: inspirational

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#2

“There is something to be said for rain, the sharing of an intimate caress with the leaves, blades of grass and all the living and the dead creatures to remind us we are connected.~Lyn Crain”
― Lyn Crain, In My Shoes: My Poetic Journey from Abuse to Victory

tags: inspiration

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#3

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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#4

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

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#5

“Poetry is the language of the soul;
Poetic Prose, the language of my heart.
Each line must flow as in a song,
and strike a chord that rings forever.
To me, words are music!”
― Lori R. Lopez

tags: music, poetic-prose, poetry, song, writing-style

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#6

“Most of us find our own voices only after we’ve sounded like a lot of other people.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: writing-style

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#7

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: writing

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#8

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

tags: reading, writing

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#9

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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#10

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#11

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#12

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

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#13

“Poetry in the darkest realm of my mind, blossoms into creations late at night when it is only me of the human kind and my felines sleeping just out of my sight.”
― Lyn Crain, In My Shoes: My Poetic Journey from Abuse to Victory

tags: poetry, writing

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#14

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
― Anais Nin

tags: writing

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#15

“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
― Lady Gaga

tags: art, craft, creativity, music, writing

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#16

“Writing is talking, except you get the chance to edit what you just said”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

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#17

“Inspiration surrounds us, the creation is our responsibility as artists.-Lyn Crain”
― Lyn Crain

tags: cooking, gardening, music, painting, quilting, writing-craft

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#18

“People stupid. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

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#19

“We're on this course of sorrow because the only knots that were tied were ones of hate.”
― Lyn Crain

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#20

“October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.”
― Keith Donohue

tags: autumn, fall, halloween, october

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