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Michael J. Marini

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Michael Marini is a second-generation Italian who was born in Wilmington, Delaware. He is the 10th of 11 children and uncle to 27 nieces and nephews. Michael is a professional piano player, author and educator. Combining his writing and music, he has created a unique "story & song" called, Spirit of Seven. Together his novel and three piano soundtracks that accompany it convey a symbiotic message of hope.

Michael and his wife, Wendy, live in central Pennsylvania with their dog, Gus. He is known as Gus "the love bus" and is an ambassador of goodness wherever he goes.
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Michael J. Marini I had an idea to write a book in 2001. It haunted me day and night until it was published in 2018!
Michael J. Marini Born to Run and Musicophilia are on my list for sure. After I finish those two I have a book about Frank Sinatra I would like to read.

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Born to Run and Musicophilia are on my list for sure. After I finish those two I have a book about Frank Sinatra I would like to read.

When I am on the beach I like to read books about boxing. They are my guilty pleasure along with Columbo reruns. Last year I read Rocky Marciano's biography on the beach. This year it's between George Foreman's autobiography and Sugar Ray Robinson's biography.(less)
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“If this isn't Heaven, it's at least in the same zip code.”
Michael J. Marini, Seven: In the Lane of Hope

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Albert Einstein

“I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.”
Michelangelo

“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

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Ernest Hemingway

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
Ernest Hemingway

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