“Franz Kafka once said, ‘a non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.’”
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“We've been together, my manuscript and I, just the two of us, for so long now. Five years exactly, and like real love, all I saw were its merits and none of its flaws. So it was time to kick it out of the nest and have someone else read it.”
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“The declaration point when writers start calling themselves writers is an important part of the journey. One that isn’t immediately clear. Fortunately there is no flagged island that you have to reach in order to call yourself a writer. The only thing you have to do is write, but speaking from experience, it takes longer for other people to come around and believe you.”
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“I found myself wishing we'd gotten there years before, so we could feel more of the pathos of the original inhabitants and less of the people hell-bent on inserting themselves via their art into a hostile landscape that had nothing to do with them. Maybe it's just me that longs for the opposite, a place to make its mark upon me.”
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