Learn to trust our own judgment,
learn inner independence,
learn to trust that time will
sort the good from the bad—
including your own bad.

―Doris Lessing

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The practice and habit of writing
not only drain the mind
but supply it too.

—William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White

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Dreams, books,
are each a world;
and books, we know,
Are a substantial world,
both pure and good:
Round these,
with tendrils strong
as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and
our happiness will grow.

—William Wordsworth

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In honor of a fellow writer

I spoke with Sgt. Sean Renfro last September. He’d been doing some writing and wanted to see if it was ready to be turned into a book. It took me some time to get back to him, but eventually we talked. In essence, I told him I liked what he had written, but I...