Rochey Apryll
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.”
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
― The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

“If your head tells you one thing and your heart tells you another ,before you do anything,you should first decide wether you have a better head or a better heart.”
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“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
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“Nonfiction lets us learn more; fiction lets us be more.”
― Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading
― Notice & Note: Strategies for Close Reading
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