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Jeanne Marie Laskas

Jeanne Marie Laskas Books

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“But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.”

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Book:Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
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“I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward”

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Book:Fifty Acres and a Poodle: A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
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“This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That that’s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. There’s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.”

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Author:Jeanne Marie Laskas
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