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Amazon's Comical Kindle Pricing Catch-22
Today, this popped up on my Twitter feed. Bill Amend, the author of Foxtrot, was trying to use the Kindle Comic Creator tool to publish his successful collections on the Kindle. He took a close loo…
Don’t talk about it; write.
—Ray Bradbury (via writingquotes)
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Writing is a process in which we discover what lives in us. The writing itself reveals to us what is alive in us. The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do no know. Thus, writing requires a real act of trust. We have to say to ourselves, “I do not yet know what I carry in my heart, but I trust that it will emerge as I write.” Writing is like giving away the few loaves and fishes one has, trusting that they will multiply in the giving. Once we dare to “give away” on paper the few thoughts that come to us, we start discovering how much is hidden underneath these thoughts and gradually come in touch with our own riches.
— Henri Nouwen on writing
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” -Flannery O’Connor
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Think long. Write short.
—George Lois
