"So many writers come to class with one question dominant in their mind, 'How do I make a living from this?' It's a fair enough question and one I always try to answer well- but it saddens me that it so often overshadows the more relevant questions of 'why am I writing' and 'what am I saying' and 'how do I keep it honest."

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Celine Kiernan

#Writing Quotes #Class Quotes #Mind Quotes

“You cannot say that you are happy when you don't win.”
“Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.”
“Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent? What do we need -- that sort of person who can truly independently represent Minnesota, or something else?.”
“I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".”
“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
“If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.”

Source : John of Ruysbroeck, Aeterna Press (2015). “The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage”, p.132, Aeterna Press
“I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.”
“Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it.”

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