Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Write to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.