Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that … - Anne Clark

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While she was no radical, no natural breaker of rules, no seeker of the bold statement, she was in her own serene way uncaring of convention and others' opinions.

Anne Clark

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

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Disobey. Defy. Take your own time. Fly.

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How many are silenced, because in order to get to their art they would have to scream?

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For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

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