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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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if you give freely, there will always be more advice/writing

Annie Dillard has said that day by day you have to give the work before you all the best stuff you have, not saving up for later projects. If you give freely, there will always be more. This is a radical proposition that runs so contrary to human nature, or at least to my nature, that I personally …

—p.202 Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
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a glimpse into someone’s soul advice/writing

I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. The alternative is that we stultify, we shut down. Think of those times when you’ve read prose or …

—p.99 by Anne Lamott
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a glimpse into someone’s soul advice/writing

I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. The alternative is that we stultify, we shut down. Think of those times when you’ve read prose or …

—p.99 by Anne Lamott
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Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending advice/writing

Lastly: I heard Alice Adams give a lecture on the short story once, one aspect of which made the writing students in her audience so excited that I have passed it along to my students ever since. (Most of the time I give her credit.) She said that sometimes she uses a formula when writing a short s…

—p.62 by Anne Lamott
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bad things happen to good characters advice/writing

You are going to love some of your characters, because they are you or some facet of you, and you are going to hate some of your characters for the same reason. But no matter what, you are probably going to have to let bad things happen to some of the characters you love or you won’t have much of a…

—p.45 by Anne Lamott