Jon Ureña
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My Own Desert Places
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Los reinos de brea
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Los dominios del emperador búho
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2018
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“What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons.”
― The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
― The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
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I see you have tons of good books about writing in your shelves... I'll have to remember that :)
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Thank you so much for the friendvitation, new GR pal! I am digging your taste in books (and how much of mine you seem to share!) and cannot wait to chat about what we are and have been reading. Take care!
Thank you very much. I hope the whole thing takes off somehow.