Barbara Ann Yoder
writer, editor, teacher, coach
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Author Quotes from My Blog
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“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”—Erica Jong
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“I know how many drafts it has taken to acquire spontaneity.”—Donald M. Murray
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“I came to the conclusion then that ‘continual mindfulness’ … must mean, not a sergeant-major-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to look and readiness to accept whatever came.”—Marion Milner
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“Writing can be like a dance of dog and child, to see who can track in the most mud.”—Charlotte Bacon
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“The creative adult is the child who has survived.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Well, it can be anything … a voice, an image … a deep moment of personal desperation. For instance, with Ragtime … I was facing the wall of my study … and so I started to write about the wall.”—E. L. Doctorow
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“I once came across the word ‘ululation.’ I thought ‘Ululation! I don’t know what this means.’ So I went to the dictionary and I looked it up, and it meant ‘uttering cries.’”—Eve Merriam
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“To write fearlessly, you’re going to feel fear.”—Cheryl Strayed
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“By creating our own stories we learn to take the texts of our lives as seriously as we do ‘official’ narratives.”—Sue Austin
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