K.C. Coombs

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When she was 12 years old, K.C. Coombs was helping her mother prepare for a yard sale when she found a pen in a box of her older brother’s things. Not just a pen, but a “fancy” pen—one you could see the ink slosh around inside, ink that would smear if you brushed your hand over it while writing. And not just a “fancy” pen, but a red fancy pen. It was maturity. It was for Writing.

After her mom said she could have it, K.C. started to consider what to write. It had to be something worthy. Something real. Something much better than the stories she’d always written in pencil, filling up the front of a single sheet of notebook paper in her large, childish scrawl, those brief tales she’d spun since she’d learned to put a sentence together.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

George Orwell
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
George Orwell, 1984

Jane Austen
“You have bewitched me, body and soul.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Brontë
“Reader, I married him.”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Thomas Mann
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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