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"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

"Reading is the creative center of a writer's life."

"You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you "

"Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."

"Over us, every second, hung the terror of Achilles's destiny, while the murmurs of war among the gods grew louder. But even I could not fill each moment with fear. I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom." Miller is an exquisite writer. The casual poetry in her prose is a joy.

"Life requires us to be creative. We must create. Creativity is an essential energy to the survival of the physical body."

"There is no external promised land. It's an internal place. No matter what happens in the outside world, the journey is to hold your center. Because the real journey is to prevent yourself from plugging in to illusions in the outside world that take your spirit with them."

"we must come to understand that language is a precious and sacred vessel. Its power to draw us together in community—especially through sharing the language of prayer—is great. So too is its power of destruction."