If you want to write, you should pay attention to people — everybody has a story — and listen to people when they talk.

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"Stress is not what happens to you, but how you choose to react to it."

- Judy Blume

Awareness

"The first draft is a skeleton. Just bare bones. The rest of the story comes later with revising."

- Judy Blume

Creativity

"When it comes to breast cancer you’re not alone, and scary though it is, there's a network of amazing women to help you through it."

- Judy Blume

Connection to Earth

"Our fingerprints don’t fade from the lives we touch."

- Judy Blume

Reflection

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them."

- Judy Blume

Education

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"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

- Jamie Paolinetti

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

- Isabel Allende

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