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1 " ...there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be. "
― , Baby
2 " Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. "
3 " Some words may make you happy, some may make you said. Maybe some will make you angry. What I hope. . . what I hope is that something will whisper in your ear. "
― , Word After Word After Word
4 " My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogboundsea the water is a color for which there is no name. "
― , Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)
5 " This is important to writing. . . that is, it is important to my own writing. This. . . is landscape! Mine. This dirt came from the prairie where I was a child. I played in it, dug in it, planted in it, and walked over it. It is where I began. And all my writing begins with a landscape such as this. A place. "
6 " I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall. "
7 " You will have a story in there. . . or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word. "
8 " I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever. "
9 " There is always something to miss, no matter where you are. "
10 " There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are. "
11 " My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fog-bound sea the water is a color for which there is no name. "
12 " تذكرتُ يوم وفاة ماما، كان صباحا قاسيا ومشمسا،جاءوا إليها في عربة وأخذوها بعيدا لتُدفَن، ثم جاء أبناء الأعمام والأخوال، والعمات والخالات، وحاولوا ملء المنزل، لكنهم لم يستطيعوا. "
13 " دائما ما نفتقد شيئا، في أي مكان نعيش فيه "
14 " سآتي بالقطار، سوف أرتدي قبعة صفراء، أنا متوسطة الجمال وفارعة الطول "
15 " Byrd: It is important because we are giving her something to take away with her when she goes.Lalo: What will she take with her?Byrd: Us.Sophie: And what will we have when she's gone?Byrd looked at Sophie and shook her head because she couldn't speak "
16 " Life is not a straight line, she said. And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever. "
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18 " Writing... is ... brave. You are brave. "
19 " Sadness isSteam risingTears fallingA breath you take inBut can't let outAs hard as you try. "
20 " Outlines are silly. Once you write the outline, there’s no reason to write the story. You write to participate . . . to find out what is going to happen! "