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“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
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“Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail.
Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.”
― Bird by Bird
Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.”
― Bird by Bird
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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sarah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
768 books
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13 friends
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Poetry, Self help, Travel, and Young-adult
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