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I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

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But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

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I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

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Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

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Jeanne Marie Laskas

Jeanne Marie Laskas

Born: 1958 (age 67)
Bio: Jeanne Marie Laskas is an American writer, journalist, and professor.
Known for:
  1. Concussion (2015)
  2. Fifty Acres And A Poodle (2000)
  3. Growing Girls (2006)
  4. The Balloon Lady and Other People I Know (1996)
  5. We remember (1999)

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