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“Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.”

Quote by Francesca Lia Block

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Francesca Lia Block

Francesca Lia Block, born on December 3, 1962, is an American author known for her works in young adult literature and fantasy novels. Her writing often delves into the emotional and growth aspects of adolescence, as well as supernatural elements. more

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“I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.”

Thinking Want Giving Writing Littles Done Next Projects Little Time The Next One Constantly Thinking Thinking Ahead

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.”

Parent Influence Poet Teenager Emily Cerebral Plath

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.”

World Enough This World Messages Scary Checks

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.”

Ifs Writing Believe I Believe Process Healing Teacher Students Painful Exhausting Exhilarating Cathartic

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.”

Thinking Long Desire Hate Tears Laughter Gates Portions Weeping Love Laughter

Author:Ernest Dowson

“I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.”

Grows Tarts Absinthe

Book:The Letters of Ernest Dowson

Source: The Letters of Ernest Dowson

“Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.”

Book Ends Pain Death Records Statistics Conventions Keepers Binding Graveyard

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

“The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.”

Life Ends Errors Accidents Trials Dubious Trial And Error

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

“Values, both those that we approve and those that we don't, have roots as deep as creosote rings, and live as long and grow as slowly”

Long Values Grows Roots Rings

Book:Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

Source: Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West

“... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows on a wall. If you examine a life, as Socrates has been so tediously advising us to do for so many centuries, do you really examine a life, or do you examine the shadows it casts on other lives? Entity or relationships? Objective reality or the vanishing point of a multiple perspective exercise? Prism or the rainbows it refracts? And what if you're the wall? What if you never cast a shadow or rainbow of your own, but have only caught those cast by others?”

Source: The Spectator Bird