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Elissa Altman
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Dog Spelled Backwards
The other day, I was listening to a great Terry Gross interview with my new favorite performer, Rosanne Cash, whose remarkable new cd, The List, just came out. One of the things that Terry asked the her was about religion: Cash had gone through a particularly challenging time, and what was it, Terry asked, that sustained her. And her answer was so poignant that I had to pull over to the side of th
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“Quiet the noise around you; soften its pitch. Our deepest stories are our best teachers. Let the weapons of the weak — the poison, the nagging, the gossip — burn themselves to ash. Cast them to the wind. Take back the permission to succeed. Make it yours.”
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“Do I have the permission to succeed at this? Who am I to tell my stories?
“Who are you to not tell them?” a writer friend said to me. This writer friend — author of novels, memoirs, a short story collection — tells me that it is ownership, the acceptance of the fact that our stories make us who we are, that is the most complicated and treacherous part of what we do. When that ownership is withheld, we cannot succeed. When other forces say, no, that story is not yours, they have not only killed it and its place in your soul; they have killed you.”
― Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
“Who are you to not tell them?” a writer friend said to me. This writer friend — author of novels, memoirs, a short story collection — tells me that it is ownership, the acceptance of the fact that our stories make us who we are, that is the most complicated and treacherous part of what we do. When that ownership is withheld, we cannot succeed. When other forces say, no, that story is not yours, they have not only killed it and its place in your soul; they have killed you.”
― Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
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“Nobody moved. "Now it's silly of me to make this all too serious," she said, changing the matter - of - fact inflection in her voice to one of levity. "You all look stricken and there's no need to be. Everything will be practically the same, you'll see." She smiled at us in a secret way, knowing how to make us giggle.”
― Haywire
― Haywire
“Do I have the permission to succeed at this? Who am I to tell my stories?
“Who are you to not tell them?” a writer friend said to me. This writer friend — author of novels, memoirs, a short story collection — tells me that it is ownership, the acceptance of the fact that our stories make us who we are, that is the most complicated and treacherous part of what we do. When that ownership is withheld, we cannot succeed. When other forces say, no, that story is not yours, they have not only killed it and its place in your soul; they have killed you.”
― Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
“Who are you to not tell them?” a writer friend said to me. This writer friend — author of novels, memoirs, a short story collection — tells me that it is ownership, the acceptance of the fact that our stories make us who we are, that is the most complicated and treacherous part of what we do. When that ownership is withheld, we cannot succeed. When other forces say, no, that story is not yours, they have not only killed it and its place in your soul; they have killed you.”
― Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
“Like the Centralia Mine Fire, my mother and I have been burning for half a century.”
― Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
― Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
“Quiet the noise around you; soften its pitch. Our deepest stories are our best teachers. Let the weapons of the weak — the poison, the nagging, the gossip — burn themselves to ash. Cast them to the wind. Take back the permission to succeed. Make it yours.”
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