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I adore Sarina as a person, and am enjoying getting to know her through her writing as well.

“But the wicked have a different head for numbers than most. Any bad they do will end up on the side of never-mind. What’s done to them weighs double.”

Can’t put this down!

More recollection than memoir, beautifully written but also a little stagnant.

“Once, California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. And such was their hunger for land that they took the land, stole Sutter's land, Guerrero's land, took the grants and broke them up and growled and quarreled over them, those frantic hungry men; and they guarded with guns the land they had stolen.”

“When you read your notebooks, you remeet ideas. You reintroduce them to who you are now.” —Max Porter (author, not my friend from college of the same name)

“My writing grew out of a discomfort I had between art and music and writing. When i made music, I felt I should be writing, and when I wrote, I felt I should be painting, feeling I wasn’t good enough at any of them.” —Max Porter

“A tolerance for tedium has to be one of the least celebrated and most important traits of a successful artist.”

“You have to be rigorous, you have to be a solider, you have to fight. It’s only by making a volume of work that you’ll be forced to confront what it is that you don’t know how to do, and learn to do it. Oh, and the other thing is, you need to show your work to other people and have them tell you what they don’t like.” –Ira glass