"Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings."

-- Barbara Holland

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“Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult
“True joy is to take pleasure in one's own accomplishments....”
“Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.”

Source : Larry L. King (1985). “Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King”, p.164, TCU Press
“In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it on their own terms. They want to be able to use their national resources and their assets in a way that protects and sustains them. Our territories are our wealth, the major assets we have. And Indigenous people use and steward this property so that they can achieve and maintain a livelihood, and achieve and maintain that same livelihood for future generations.”
“Books are the liberated spirits of men.”
“Every community has its own specialty and it's not just for clothing obviously, but for the home, etc.”
“Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.”
“You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!”

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