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All of us have a shell, a skin between us and the world that we have to break each time we speak to it. Sometimes I wished mine were thinner.
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“Writing is about hypnotizing yourself into believing in yourself, getting some work done, then unhypnotizing yourself and going over the material coldly.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
Mellissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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