A creative writing workshop ...

A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
 Rachel Cusk

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
 Rachel Cusk
How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
 Rachel Cusk
I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
 Rachel Cusk
I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
 Rachel Cusk
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
 Rachel Cusk