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Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love.

Laura Kasischke
Struggle, Writing, Thinking

your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.

Laura Kasischke
Forever, Lasts, Instant
"The Life Before Her Eyes", www.imdb.com. 2007.

We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.

Laura Kasischke
Heart, Men, Voice
"Fictional character: Paul McFee". "The Life Before Her Eyes", www.imdb.com. 2007.

Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

Laura Kasischke
Motivational, Sad, Heartbroken
Laura Kasischke (2011). “The Raising”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

Laura Kasischke
Balls, Exotic, Hunger
Laura Kasischke (2014). “White Bird in a Blizzard”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No one is going to hear what she says whether she speaks or not. Simply she could close her eyes and never speak again. She could suck all of the air in this room-every dust mote, every atom-into her body and hide it inside her.

Laura Kasischke
Eye, Dust, Air
Laura Kasischke (2002). “The Life Before Her Eyes”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.

Laura Kasischke
Stars, Heart, Vacation

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