“Creativity is our most powerful tool to shape the world we want to live in.” — Isra Hirsi

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"Odd How the Creative Power At Once Brings the Whole Universe To Order" ~ Virginia Woolf

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The Myth of the Lone Creative

The writer has done their job when the reader’s reaction to the ending is “Oh my God,” followed by “Of course.” ~David Leavitt

Then there is the other kind of aboutness. There’s this question of what is the story About with a capital A ~ Michael Chabon

The good piece of writing startles the reader back into Life. The work ... this false life that is even less than the seeming of this lived life, is more than the lived life too. ~ Joy Williams

The heart of dialogue is simple. The profoundness is to listen. — Lolly Daskal

I never told you this, but the day after my mother died, I ate her unfinished red velvet birthday cake. The whole of it. ~ Evelyn Krieger

Hell is story friendly. But ... Paradise is not a story. Paradise is about what happens when the stories are over. ~Charles Baxter, Burning Down the House

The Narrator's Promise