Quotes

Let’s celebrate International Women’s Day — Middle East Monitor

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For the first time since the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, women in the country are celebrating International Women’s Day, in a way that is reminiscent of the celebrations that their own mothers and grandmothers might have witnessed. Finally, after an absence that was intended to last, women have returned to participating in […]

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The Freedom to Write Whatever, Wherever is What You Need — A Writer’s Path — Novel Writing Festival

by Laura Peters Writing is more than just a passion for some people. For them, it is their career, it is their whole life, and it is something that they are attached to in more ways than one. Although, for some, it is just something that they do to make themselves feel better, […] via The […]

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NOVEL Transcript Reading of Winter’s Captive, by June V. Bourgo — Novel Writing Festival

BUY on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Winters-Captive-Georgia-Book-1-ebook/dp/B077TGGYR6 Performed by Hannah Ehman Recently separated from her cheating husband and unaware of a budding pregnancy, Georgia Charles is on her way to Yukon to visit a childhood friend. After she’s attacked by unknown men, Georgia’s trip becomes a fight for survival. Escaping to the wild, she seeks shelter in an […]

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NOVEL Transcript Reading of Trapped in a World of Silence, by Deborah Harris — Novel Writing Festival

BUY on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Trapped-World-Silence-Harris-Deborah-ebook/dp/B003TSEJUW Performed by Hannah Ehman Deborah L. Harris takes us on a personal journey in living with Autism from the moment her son is diagnosed at the age of four up until his present age of eighteen. Deborah shares the struggles that she encountered with the developmental disorder that eventually destroyed her […]

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Who Decides Who Decides? — BTW Magnet Creative Writing

Poetry has been a powerful and mysterious force throughout history. It has sparked controversy, changed lives, and molded the world with writing. Its manner of self-expression comes in many forms and has been through many changes. However, there have always been standards for what is and is not acceptable for poetry. Critics decide what can […]

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“The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.” — Art of Quotation

“The camera gave me an incredible freedom. It gave me the ability to parade through the world and look at people and things very, very closely.” Carrie Mae Weems, photographer

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“Every creative act… involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.” — Art of Quotation

Every creative act… involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs. Arthur Koestler, author, book quote from “The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe“.

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”It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.” — Art of Quotation

”It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.” John F. Carlson, painter, author

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“Art is risk made visible” — Art of Quotation

“Art is risk made visible” Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Photographer Image: Saunderstown, Rhode Island, 1974 He works alone, his images are all unmanipulated, made with one exposure, with no retouching. ‘I do not use an assistant to look through the camera; otherwise she or he also becomes the photographer. Instead, I have nine seconds to get […]

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