Dylan Tweney
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Dylan Tweney
There are times when a leap into someone else’s perspective feels impossible.
But leaping is the job of the writer, and there’s no point it doing it halfway. Good fiction pulls off a magic trick of absurd power: It makes us care.
Rachel Kadish • Opinion | Empathy Is Essential to Writing Fiction. It’s Also Disappearing. - The New York Times
What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done.
George Saunders • George Saunders: What Writers Really Do When They Write
I might, at one time, become a twenty-year-old lesbian. Another time I’ll be a thirty-year-old unemployed househusband. I put my feet into the shoes I’m given then, make my foot size fit those shoes, and then start to act. That’s all it is. I don’t make the shoes fit my foot size but, rather, make my feet fit the shoes.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
What always works and brings sometimes unexpected benefits, however, is committing to writing as a consistent, devotional, and dedicated practice. We’ve never met anyone who committed to a writing practice over years and regretted it.
Notion • Welcome to Foster and Cohort 6!
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer • 1 highlight
amazon.com
Understanding that suffering has a cause and can be cured is one thing, but managing to bring about that cure is a formidable challenge: “Just stop craving, and your suffering will disappear! How hard can that be?” As it turns out, it can be very hard indeed. The way out of suffering, woven from the elements of the eightfold path, needs to be craft
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Donna Fergusontheguardian.com
Without any intentional, fancy way of adjusting yourself, to express yourself freely as you are is the most important thing to make yourself happy, and to make others happy. You will acquire this kind of ability by practicing zazen. Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To
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