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“My job is to tell good stories, convey meanings, invoke emotion as well as I can. I'd rather be doing that than anything else.”

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Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Lucy Jane Bledsoe is an American novelist born on February 1, 1957. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature. more

“Writing is incredibly hard. But I want to do it. That said, I make it the top priority in every day, which for me means the first hours after getting out of bed in the morning. I've been doing it enough years now that I don't even think about waiting for my muse to show up, I just get to work.”

Thinking Writing Mean Enough Waiting Hours Morning Priorities Muse

Author:Lucy Jane Bledsoe

“I've long been a fan of Adrian Piper's work. I find her performance pieces moving in their willingness to lean toward the absurd. Yet, there's a social critique in her interaction with people who may or may not have understood that the artist was present.”

People Long Moving Artist Absurd Willingness Critique

Author:Dawn Lundy Martin

“I felt saddened and confused to discover my favorite mural gone, but also hopeful that another one may be in the works. Street art is mysterious and impermanent like that. It can appear or disappear overnight. Murals like these are at risk of desecration, transformation, erasure. Someone's gonna piss on it, draw a mustache on it, tag it. The weather's going to make it fade. That's part of the beauty, I think. Murals have value without being precious.”

Thinking Art Values Risk Art Is Transformation My Favorite Disappear Mysterious Confused Hopeful Mustache Saddened Mural

Author:Emily Raboteau

“I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion that gender needs to be overly inscribed into the text with some kind of message. Hers is the kind of work that has most influenced how I make poetry - the idea that we don't need to enclose or nail down gender or race, for that matter.”

Kind Gender

Author:Dawn Lundy Martin

“The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.”

Men Remember Forget Numbers Greater Divine Life Lesson Metamorphosis Forget The Past

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.”

Country Perspective Activist Organized Religion

Author:Emily Raboteau

“I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.”

Thinking Acceptance Fit Rejection

Author:Emily Raboteau

“My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but when it comes to poetry I'm not really interested in writing poetry that seeks to entertain or operate safely within the mainstream and, to be clear, I'm not disparaging the really phenomenal work that does - it's just not my interest as a poet.”

Writing Artist Goal Interest Audience Poet Good Times Having A Good Time Phenomenal Writing Poetry

Author:Dawn Lundy Martin

“I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.”

Thinking Long Feelings Laughing Despair Deserve Mess Excellent

Author:Emily Raboteau

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