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“He knelt down. I thought I was in trouble, so I told him that I had been good. He said, “You don’t need to be nice.” My mother said that was when I became trouble.”
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
― Heart Berries: A Memoir
“It’s dangerous to confuse self-expression with communication.”
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
“...the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure and success.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“The story of your life, described, will not describe how you came to think about your life or yourself, nor describe any of what you learned. This is what fiction can do - I think it is even what fiction is for.”
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
― How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“Ultimately you write alone. And ultimately you and you alone can judge your work. The judgment that a work is complete—this is what I meant to do, and I stand by it—can come only from the writer, and it can be made rightly only by a writer who’s learned to read her own work.”
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
― Steering The Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
Kay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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40 friends
124 books
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89 friends
117 books
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21 friends
124 books
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77 friends
77 books
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198 friends
59 books
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144 friends
1 book
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34 friends
1 book
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237 friends
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