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For all the things we cannot control, we have the Serenity Prayer. But along with praying like it depends on God, we have to work like it depends on us. Generally speaking, we can control when we get up. We can control when we go to bed.
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
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“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
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Ashley’s 2025 Year in Books
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