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Valeria Schimizzi
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“There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Life is not unlike cinema. Each scene has its own music, and the music is created for the scene, woven to it in ways we do not understand. No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn’t suit the moment.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“Well, that’s one of the paradoxes of life. You can’t have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“So okay― there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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