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Quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from James Baldwin:   “The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.”   More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

Quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Anne Carson, she of the recent Nobel Prize for Literature award:   “Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.”

Quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes coms from D.H. Lawrence:   “My hand is alive, it flickers with a life of its own…and knows a vast number of things.”   More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

Quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes coms from Amanda Gorman:   “It is easy to harp, Harder to hope.”   More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

Quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes coms from Dolly Parton:   “Everything is a song to me.”   More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from David Hoyle: “Still being artistic, that’s revenge.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Lynda Barry: “Real aliveness of line is hard to come by.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Austin Kleon, “The hand knows as much as the head does.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Joanne Hong   “Do I owe it as an artist to come to a meaningful conclusion?”   More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from James Russell Lowell: “Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Tara Brach: “Imperfection is not our personal problem—it is a natural part of existing." More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Peter Hook:   “When you don’t know what you’re doing, you make some wonderful mistakes.”   More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Alice Walker: “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Alice Walker: “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for?” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from James Hillman: “When we wrong the dream, we wrong the soul.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

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The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Robert Louis Stevenson: “I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes comes from Helen Keller: “What I am looking for is not out there; it is in me.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…

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The quote of the week for the teens in my creative writing classes, comes from Craig Mod: “Boredom: the great engine of creativity.” More on my blog: kendrakandlestar.wordpress.c…