Luann

“Every now and then it's nice to pick your head up from your book, reacquaint yourself with the world around you, take a hard pass, and immediately go right back to reading.”
― Jonathan Edward Durham

“The artist knows total dependence on the unseen reality. The paradox is that the creative process is incomplete unless the artist is, in the best and most proper sense of the word, a technician, one who knows the tools of his trade, has studied his techniques, is disciplined. One writer said, “If I leave my work for a day, it leaves me for three.” I think it was Artur Rubinstein who admitted, “If I don’t practice the piano for one day I know it. If I don’t practice it for two days my family knows it. If I don’t practice it for three days, my public knows it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life

“Children's books can teach us not just what we have forgotten, but what we have forgotten we have forgotten.”
― Katherine Rundell, Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise

“Dailiness, I've come to believe, is more important than training or education or workshops or mentorship or MFAs. You don't get better at what you are told to do, or shown how to do, or educated to do. You get better at what you actually do, over and over.”
― Mary Jo Hoffman, STILL: The Art of Noticing