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"As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall." ~Virginia Woolf

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it." ~C.S. Lewis

"The storyteller is deep inside everyone of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is attacked by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise . . . but the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us - for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative."
~Doris Lessing

"Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that. Reading is the creative center of a writer's life."
~Stephen King

"You know, I'm a storyteller. We are storytellers. And ours is an ancient tradition, contemporized by the cinema and the capturing of light. And we should all be very proud of our place in society. On any given night, millions of people across the world buy a ticket for adventures that only we as storytellers can provide. We release burdens, we galvanize emotions, we make people laugh, we make people talk over breakfast. This is a great job and I want to encourage every one of you in this room to give everything you can to the story. God bless narrative. God bless originality."
~Russell Crowe
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"When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
~Kurt Vonnegut

"Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done."
~Anne Lamott

"America is now wholly given over to a d****d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."
~Hawthorne's 1855 letter to his publisher William D. Ticknor, quoted in Pattee, Fred L. The Feminine Fifties. NY: Appleton-Century Co., 1940. p. 110.

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January 22nd, 2010

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18 comments to “Artist in Residence”

Colleen
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· January 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 am · Link

I love little kids art, just hate the clean up! My 18 month old nephew loves markers… waiting awhile before we try water colors… :)

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- Alison
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  · January 22nd, 2010 at 11:41 am · Link
  
  His mom took him to Preschool Picasso day at the library. I can’t imagine the mess of cleaning up after a bunch of these younger painters!
  
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Bekke
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· January 22nd, 2010 at 1:33 pm · Link

Cutie! He looks a lot like his grandma. :)

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  · January 22nd, 2010 at 2:52 pm · Link
  
  I’m trying to decide about the wide set eyes. I think hose are his momma’s.!
  
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Jane
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· January 22nd, 2010 at 4:01 pm · Link

Looks like he’s having a lot of fun.

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- Alison
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  · January 22nd, 2010 at 4:47 pm · Link
  
  He also got to read bunches of library books and get a hot dog with tater tots, so I think the day was a complete success.
  
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Stacy S
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· January 22nd, 2010 at 5:56 pm · Link

He looks like he’s having fun. And he’s not wearing it all, that’s always a plus!

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- Alison
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  · January 22nd, 2010 at 10:09 pm · Link
  
  I think this was early in the game, LOL, as there was a bit of a mess on Sam and Momma both!
  
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Fedora
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· January 23rd, 2010 at 12:54 am · Link

Heavens! Can’t believe how big Sam’s getting! Thanks for sharing the fun!

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- Alison
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  · January 23rd, 2010 at 10:25 am · Link
  
  He’s three months shy of being three years old!
  
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Diana
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· January 24th, 2010 at 12:29 am · Link

Cute picture. I love Sam’s “I’m with the band” T-shirt. :)

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- Alison
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  · January 24th, 2010 at 11:25 am · Link
  
  I *believe* that was a gift from No. 1 Daughter and her boyfriend who sings in a band. He used to play guitar, but was promoted to wailing. ;)
  
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Jackie
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· January 24th, 2010 at 4:19 pm · Link

What a cute little boy….my refrigerator is covered in kids art all the time…it’s a wonderful place to put such treasures.

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  · January 24th, 2010 at 4:25 pm · Link
  
  I definitely need some Sam art! I don’t have any. Bad Grammy! ;)
  
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Taylor
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· February 4th, 2010 at 8:19 pm · Link

ill send you some sam art… no problem! i have too much with too little room to display it! i got a cute little thing made of wire and clips at ikea for like 5 bucks that can hold like 25 pictures. i bought it over a year ago and i still haven’t figured out how to hang it up so his art is every where else in my house

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  · February 4th, 2010 at 10:03 pm · Link
  
  I’d love some!
  
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B B Kent
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· February 5th, 2010 at 5:39 am · Link

Had to make a comment as we share the same surname. Surprised most of the paint seems to be on the paper rather than the clothes!

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- Alison
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  · February 5th, 2010 at 9:37 am · Link
  
  I believe later in the morning he was quite colorful himself!
  
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