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“A poor attempt at writing is better than no attempt at all.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“I'm weird. On the surface I look quiet and composed, but inside I have a hundred voices raging at full volume.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“Writing is breathing life into forgotten memories.”
― Ksenia Anske, Blue Sparrow: Tweets on Writing, Reading, and Other Creative Nonsense

“In the future, we will all enjoy our 15 minutes of privacy.” SCOTT MONTY, FORD”
― Erik Qualman, What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube: PRIVACY is DEAD. The NEW rules for business, personal, and family reputation.

“Some people are meant to disappear from your life, to remain a memory, a faded possibility. A curiosity. I ought to know. But when curiosity is so easily fulfilled, how do you avoid fulfilling it? A button is pressed and you’re friends again.”
― Catherine McKenzie, Hidden

“She could cut you open with one note and sew you up with another.”
― Anonymous

“You get better at creative work by doing creative work. Your creativity needs feeding and care. If you ignore it, it will wither. Taking time to write, draw, paint and collage regularly are ways to get better at them.”
― Quinn McDonald, Raw Art Journaling

“If you forget to water your creative spirit every day, it can begin to shrivel just as a new plant will. Your spirit thrives when the right amount of attention is given to it and so does creativity.”
― Pam Carriker, Art at the Speed of Life: motivation + inspiration for making mixed-media art every day

“But that’s the funny thing about treasure—we assume everyone wants what we hold most dear.”
― Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist

“Have compassion for everyone you meet even if they don’t want it. What seems conceit, bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone. —Miller Williams (American poet)”
― Dr. Katinka van der Merwe, Taming the Beast: A Guide to Conquering Fibromyalgia

“I don’t feel sorry for myself. I’m not owed any of that. The opportunities were there, and I did not take them. I find it difficult to live with this sometimes.”
― Craig Lancaster, The Fallow Season of Hugo Hunter

“Maybe, just maybe, those six balls are a scarf and hat that get tucked away for years and long after I’m gone someone pulls them out and says, “Remember how Grammy was with all the wool? Remember how she knit all the time?” fingering the soft wool and pondering who I was and what I did while I was here.”
― Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Knitting Rules!: The Yarn Harlot's Bag of Knitting Tricks

“As usual, pain does its work on the inside, invisibly. In doing her best to have as normal a life as possible, Carolyn cultivates an appearance that belies her true experience.1”
― Lynn R. Webster, The Painful Truth: What Chronic Pain Is Really Like and Why It Matters to Each of Us