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“Trying to work too quickly, trying to work in too polished a way too quickly, expecting clarity too soon, can set us up for failure.”
― Louise DeSalvo, The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity

“What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?”
― Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

“Slow writing is a meditative act: slowing down to understand our relationship to our writing, slowing down to determine our authentic subjects, slowing down to write complex works, slowing down to study our literary antecedents.”
― Louise DeSalvo, The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity

“The most productive writers and creative people I know realize that dreaming and daydreaming are important parts of how writers work. We might not know, now, what to do with the images our dreams or daydreams provide, but one day, if we continue to try to unravel their meaning, as Naylor’s process illustrates, we will.”
― Louise DeSalvo, The Art of Slow Writing: Reflections on Time, Craft, and Creativity