Quotes on Writing and Life: Celeste's reflections

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Saturday, March 20, 2004

Writing about yourself....

"Writing an autobiography and making a spiritual will are practically the same."-Sholem Aleichem Much of what I write and read on Blogit is essentially someone's autobiography. Even if we don't mean to share the condition of our souls, what we write and how we comment our responses to others may... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 14, 2004

Confidence as a writer....

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all --that is genius."--Emerson In college I took classes that operated like creative writing groups. About 8 years ago, I was thrilled to be invited to join a local writer's group in this town. It... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 11, 2004

The universe is made of______?

"Say it, say it. The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."--Muriel Rukeyser And even when the physicists look at atoms, they find stories and mysteries....Light is a particle and light is a wave. To even look at things on an atomic level changes them. So even atoms are made of stories. Another... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, March 8, 2004

Whether it's a blank page or a blank screen....

Whether it's a blank page or a blank screen, starting a writing project is at least a little daunting everytime I do it. Especially after I have written something that REALLY WORKED--like a poem that feels like a sculpture that always existed in that piece of marble, and I had the honor of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 6, 2004

...one word at a time....

E.L. Doctorow observed, "Writng novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way." For me, the most important thing in writing is to get more and more words on the page. In some ways, bloggingnetwork feels like a very big... Sign in to see full entry.

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