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My first piece of advice to you is this: have an ending in mind to write toward. You can always change it along the way, or when you revise. And the way you come up with an ending is to start in the middle. Because this is where you
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“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.”
― Poverty, by America
― Poverty, by America
“If this was lost, let us all be lost always.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“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.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“Resistance plays for keeps. It plays to kill. Resistance is fueled by fear. It has no power on its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. Master the fear and we conquer resistance.”
― The War of Art
― The War of Art
“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.”
― Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm
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.”
― Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm
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