"I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined talking about the life of writing and how you can do it, how you can stand it, how you can emotionally manage it, with the choices that we all make on the page."

-- Alice Mattison

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“Age is not the determining factor in health.”
“One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.”
“Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When a spouse dies, a companion will wonder. When financial hardship befalls a family, a father will ask. When children wander from the path, a mother and father will cry out in sorrow. Yes, 'weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' Then, in the dawn of our increased faith and understanding, we arise and choose to wait upon the Lord, saying, 'Thy will be done.'”
“As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.”
“One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.”
“Spiritual knowledge is fruitful only when it is applied”
“Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.”
“The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.”

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