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Book cover for Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint
We who write fiction have no team of actors or musicians to do our bidding, so it’s easy to forget that our work, too, has a composition stage and a performance stage. We are both composer and performer. Or rather, we are both storyteller ...more
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Mary Oliver
“Stepping out into the world, into the grass, onto the path, was always a kind of relief. I was not escaping anything. I was returning to the arena of delight.”
Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“Have you ever thought about the word 'hayseed?' a writer friend asked me one day, as we walked through waist-high pastures. What an amazing metaphor. Out of the entire English language, someone chose that word as an insult, but it has poetic double meaning. What are the odds? ...

What a tiny dream a hayseed is! What an outrageous assertion, that a seed could ever amount to anything more than just a single blade of grass. And yet, raveled into that tiny husk is everything our farm has ever needed, or will ever need in the future.”
Forrest Pritchard, Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm

Mary Oliver
“If this was lost, let us all be lost always.”
Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

James Rebanks
“We are, I guess, all of us, built out of stories.”
James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District

Matthew Desmond
“Poverty measures exclude everyone in prison and jail—not to mention those housed in psych wards, halfway houses, and homeless shelters—which means there are millions more poor Americans than official statistics let on.”
Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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