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Fiction and Femicide – Writing Characters Who Survive Domestic Violence
Toni Morrison once said: "This is precisely the time when artists go to work.... We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." With her declaration in mind, and with many of our hearts heavy from a recent spate of lives lost to domestic violence—women whose stories ended too soon—I've found myself thinking about how the subplot of a woman in an abusive relationship is woven through my first three novels: Speak to My Heart, Nothing But the Right Thing and […] -
VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats
Career Authors
Your theme is what your story is really about. In this Career Authors Round-Up, you'll discover what these terrific writers past and present have to say about theme.
VARIATIONS ON A THEME: A Round-Up of Advice, from Sam Abell to William Butler Yeats Paula Munier…
https://careerauthors.com/variations-on-a-theme-a-round-up-of-advice-from-sam-abell-to-william-butler-yeats/#Craft #AmaAtaAidoo #AndrewStanton #AnnaQuindlen #CharlotteBront
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A quotation from Anna Quindlen
If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting — often unwilling — recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1953) American journalist, novelist
Article (1991-08-07), “Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves,” New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/quindlen-anna/10605/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #AnnaQuindlen #books #childrearing #children #decorating #library #parenting #reading
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A quotation from Anna Quindlen
If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting — often unwilling — recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1953) American journalist, novelist
Article (1991-08-07), “Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves,” New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/quindlen-anna/10605/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #AnnaQuindlen #books #childrearing #children #decorating #library #parenting #reading
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A quotation from Anna Quindlen
If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting — often unwilling — recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1953) American journalist, novelist
Article (1991-08-07), “Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves,” New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/quindlen-anna/10605/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #AnnaQuindlen #books #childrearing #children #decorating #library #parenting #reading
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A quotation from Anna Quindlen
If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting — often unwilling — recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1953) American journalist, novelist
Article (1991-08-07), “Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves,” New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/quindlen-anna/10605/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #AnnaQuindlen #books #childrearing #children #decorating #library #parenting #reading
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A quotation from Anna Quindlen
If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting — often unwilling — recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlen (b. 1953) American journalist, novelist
Article (1991-08-07), “Public & Private: Enough Bookshelves,” New York TimesMore about this quote: wist.info/quindlen-anna/10605/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #AnnaQuindlen #books #childrearing #children #decorating #library #parenting #reading
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[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting
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[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)