"The simple truth is that being a creative artist takes courage; itâ€™s not a job for the faint of heart. It takes courage each and every time you put a book or poem or painting before the public, because it is, in fact, enormously revealing."

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Terri Windling

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“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]”
“Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two amazing writing mentors who helped me along the way. They always encouraged me to be okay with a simple story.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.”
“The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.”
“An education is a more surefire guarantee that you have possibilities opened to you.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.”
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds, and contrary tides... I mistook them for adulthood. Assuming they were a fixed feature in my life's voyage, I neglected to record their latitude, their longitude, their approach. Young ruddy fool. What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”
“What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? Itâ€™s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.”

Source : "New Life, No Instructions". Book by Gail Caldwell, wnpr.org. April 2014.

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