Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms … - Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Head held high and lips parted, she breathed in the music, sending it through her torso and arms and legs the way the Tai Chi teacher told us to breath the air, transforming it into energy, motion. Dancing is the body's song, and Bess sang.

Air, Breath, Song, Teacher, Told

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Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

Athlete, Dancer, Dancers, Self, Stretches, Tune

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Book, Done, Life, People

My head aches, my eyes burn, my arms and legs have given up, and my face in the mirror has a grayish cast. The bed, across the room, calls in its unmistakable lover's croon, Come to me, come, only I can make you truly happy, oh, how happy I'll make you, don't resist, remember how you moan with pleasure the instant we touch. . . . . Laura Acosta

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Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

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Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

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