Shannon Whitehead

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Shannon’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1409)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (296)
nonfiction‎ (303)
christian‎ (199)
books-i-own‎ (197)
2020-releases‎ (170)
2019-releases‎ (168)
essays-short-stories‎ (159)
contemporary-fiction‎ (137)
2021-releases‎ (122)

historical-fiction‎ (102)
theology‎ (76)
nonfiction-history‎ (72)
literary-fiction‎ (69)
read-2018‎ (54)
read-2019‎ (54)
race‎ (52)
read-2017‎ (48)
kindle‎ (45)
arc‎ (41)
on-writing‎ (41)

mystery-thriller‎ (32)
read-2020‎ (30)
social-justice‎ (28)
african-american-fiction‎ (27)
poetry‎ (23)
classics‎ (20)
native-american‎ (20)
2022-releases‎ (19)
apologetics‎ (16)
childhood‎ (15)
mental-health‎ (14)

favorites‎ (9)
lgbtq‎ (9)
creativity‎ (7)
productivity‎ (7)
to-come-back-to‎ (6)
cried‎ (5)
memoir‎ (2)
food‎ (1)

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Shannon’s Quotes

“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”
― Philip Roth

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“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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“You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

tags: complexities, individuality, insight, issues, learning, life, morality, novels, reading, self-righteousness, sensitivity, society

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“But the picking out, the choosing. Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind. My mind.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

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