Caroline Starr Rose

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On Writing

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From a Class of 2k12 conversation I couldn’t pass up. Posted here with permission:

Also, writing? Sometimes it’s not sacred. Sometimes it’s like making ground beef by pressing a live cow through a colander. It’s messy and hard and unglamorous and really quite insane, but at the end you still can eat a burger.

-J. Anderson Coats

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  1. Amy L. Sonnichsen says

    May 15, 2012 at 2:31 am

    Ha ha! Thanks for the laugh. What a great analogy. 🙂

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  2. Mia says

    May 15, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    I like that quote!

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  3. Joanne Fritz says

    May 15, 2012 at 10:46 pm

    Great quote, Caroline! I recently finished reading The Wicked and the Just and I’m so impressed, Jillian.

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    • Caroline Starr Rose says

      May 16, 2012 at 6:29 pm

      Isn’t it wonderful??

      Reply
  4. Christina Farley says

    May 16, 2012 at 12:10 am

    Oh that is a good quote.

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