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“No" is a complete sentence.”
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“E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”
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“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
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“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
― Bird by Bird
― Bird by Bird
Tamara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tamara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
19,313 books
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2,829 friends
3,340 books
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23 friends
472 books
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168 friends
1,379 books
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410 friends
2,104 books
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33 friends
157 books
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3,018 friends
2,194 books
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185 friends
568 books
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31 friends
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Favorite Genres
History and Non-fiction
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