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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
—Abraham Lincoln

#presidency #deadpresidents #president #malepower #power

PHOTO by Quang Vuong. A narrow aisle stretches deep into a monochrome labyrinth of tall bookshelves, packed tightly with aged spines and endless stories. Overhead signs mark categories—Poetry, U.S. History, Literary Bios—dangling above the quiet corridor. A lone step ladder waits mid-path, inviting the seeker upward. Fluorescent lights cast a sterile glow, yet the space feels timeless, suspended between thought and memory. The silence is thick, broken only by the imagined rustle of turning pages.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

Jane Kenyon

‘Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk.’
— Jane Kenyon
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#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

“[Writing is] largely a matter of application and hard work, or writing and rewriting endlessly until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me that usually means many, many revisions.”
Rachel Carson, who died on this day in 1964

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Anaïs Nin

‘We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art — we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.’
— Anaïs Nin
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I feel the same about books. 📚 And the people who like books AND cats...? My tribe. 🧡

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Writers-- scrutinize all incoming requests, offers, etc. People are even getting bogus PEN festival appearance offers that seem legit. Someone is still sending emails pretending to be me and my agent offering editing services. This is the new normal.

"I am willing to sound dumb.
I am willing to be wrong.
I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool.
I am willing to express a theory."

—Anonymous

#booksky #5amwritersclub #writersky #letthemtheory #editor #theory #expression #art #creativity #motivation #quotes

Shelf of classic books

‘A good book is an event in my life.’
– Stendhal
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Amen!
#BookSky

#booksky

Kurt Vonnegut

‘To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.’
- Kurt Vonnegut
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#caturday #morocco #sunset #agafaydesert #cats #catnap

Mario is selling a book called “it’s a me.” He’s at a book reading meet the author event. He says “so I said to myself, Mario you’re on your last life. If you want to write a book, you have to do it now”

Happy MAR10 day

The worst! 🙄

Agreed! It's a "What is blocking me from what I truly want"-kinda quote. 🙂

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”

—Jack Canfield

#quoteoftheday #dailyquote #motivation #lovenotfear #booksky

Definitely feel that authors should be able to opt-in/opt-out of this functionality...

#AI #authorsky #grammarly

Post from Julia Fine that says, "Write the book you want to read because you will have to read it 75 times."

#writerslife

A woman with a thought bubble that reads, "Do I need a manuscript evaluation or a manuscript assessment?"

❗An ME is a quote of how much editing work is needed, and the associated fees.
❗An MA provides overall guidance about areas of improvement.
✅ I provide a MANUSCRIPT REVIEW that accomplishes all of the above, at one cent (CDN) per word. I still have one two-week slot open in June.⏱

#booksky #authors

will farrell 👏👏👏

#caturday #cats #morocco #doorart

Writing tips from John Steinbeck:

"Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised."