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I love to get inspiration from everywhere. ”
Alanis Morissette - I think she's one of my biggest inspirations. ”
I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative. ”
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions. ”
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ”
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations. ”
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. ”
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra. ”
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. ”
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it. ”