There Is No Handbook for Being a Writer
I’m not 22 or even 42 and do not have the benefit of time, but I do have one advantage.
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The Admiral in the Library: The Millions Interviews James Stavridis
Reading is integral to my life. And I think, in the end, we solve global problems not by launching missiles, it’s by launching ideas. So as a tool for understanding the world and for understanding how you can change the world, I find fiction incredibly important.
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The Slow Language of Sculpture, the Fast Language of Words
My husband is a sculptor and he worships stone. Travertine, granite, marble, onyx - these are the other women in my married life. A writer can learn a lot from a stone carver, and I’ve been watching him a long time.
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