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“A personal essay is probably the most malleable form of writing style, because it enables a writer to engage in a felicitous conversation with oneself. The more formal rules that govern academic writing are largely inapplicable to personal essay writing. Personal essays are free from the forbidding cadence and rigid structure of thesis writing. A personal essay’s lilt reflects the movement of the writer’s mind.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls
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“An essayist’s tone can be grim or playful, somber or teasing, and critical or uplifting. Unlike a thesis that a writer drafts to establish, verify, and support a proposition, a person primarily writes a personal essay to please oneself by questioning, probing, and investigating the mysterious, anomalous, and the unknowable wreckage of our humanity. A writer frequently initiates a personal essay by simply clearing their throat.”

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“A novice writer such as me tenuous, initiatory pen strokes usually are either dismal attempts to emulate through stylistic imitation authors of influence, or they are too preoccupied upon developing their own writing flair to actually communicate a thought. The emphasis upon writing with a definitive style naturally gets in the way of producing any work of substance. Preening amateur writers typically drown in the florescence of their own purple twaddle. Nevertheless, the only way to discover a mature inner voice that can speak to me and for me is to write with a ferocious stubbornness, gamely writing sentence after sentence until I can sieve valuable nuggets from a swamp of mental mire.”

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“Words are felt bodily presences. They take up residence in our connective tissue, in the inner sanctum of our cells and the rapid fire of neurons. They await our grasp and their play upon the page. They await our writing, our consideration and gaze. They want to be touched by writing and partake in one form becoming another form, a flesh body shedding a skin for a text body.”

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Book:Writing and the Body in Motion: Awakening Voice through Somatic Practice
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“Writing is a path of knowing, a process of cognition, an act of being and becoming. The flesh gives voice to sing or rant, a verbal dance of cells, atoms, energy, intention, and attention.”

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“The communication function of modern writers is akin to the ancient role fulfilled by tribal shamans. All writers ultimately perform a shamanistic role in society; their mythmaking voices speak to us from the underworld after their passage to the other side. Writers place themselves in a trance-like state where their unconscious mind dictates to them what to write.”

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“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person knows that they must die, and consequently people build elaborate symbolic defenses mechanism to shield themselves from knowledge of their impermanence. Every person possesses autonomy of the will, the ability to choose how to conduct their life. The freedom to act towards objects is ultimately useless; it provides a person with no sense of meaning and supplies no purpose to life because a mere collection of objects will not transcend their physical demise. An artist does not deny their impermanence but embraces the prospect of their death by laboring to create a monument of their existence that will survive their expiry.”

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“A life of working dutifully to secure acquisitions tends to dull the intelligence and creativity of a human being. The ultimate goal of an ingenious person is to expand human consciousness by growing into his or her surroundings and realizing how their spiritual essence does not stand in isolation.”

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“Keep writing- this is important. Never stop doing the kind of writing that makes you feel alive. Never sell your creativity for money. Your creativity keeps you alive. It is all you have. If you do choose to lease it, it can be quite lucrative- but do so consciously. Don’t expect your groundbreaking, earth-shattering ideas to gain traction in the court of the Almighty Click that delineates human meaning into a six-point scale of Likes, Loves, Hahas, Wows, Sads, or Angrys.”

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Author:Alice Minium
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“Don't worry about offending people. Any time you write something thought provoking, some idiots will complain, because they hate it when you make them think.”

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“What I found was an ability to enjoy writing again, because I stopped making it about wanting to be the best, or wanting to be better than some past version of myself, or better than other people I admire a lot who write YA fiction. Instead of seeing it as a pyramid, or something that you're trying to get to the top of; I started seeing it as a huge ball that I'm trying to, like, contribute one layer of paint to. Lots of other people are contributing layers of paint, and through that the ball gets more beautiful and more interesting, and also bigger. And instead of me needing to be at the top of my game somehow, what I can really do I think in the end, is contribute in a small way to a very big conversation that's very old. And that's what art is for me.”

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Author:John Green
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“If human hands are permitted to reshape, rewrite, and even transform the tone and style of a work while preserving the author’s name, then the use of AI should be seen in the same light. There is no meaningful difference between AI rewriting a book and a relative or a human editor doing so—what matters is that the ideas and vision remain rooted in the author’s mind.”

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Author:Mouloud Benzadi
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