Caroline Starr Rose

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On Writing

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Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else.
– Etty Hillesum

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  1. Anita Saxena says

    January 26, 2011 at 11:50 am

    I like this quote. Write because it’s your passion and not for any other reason.

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  2. Natalie Aguirre says

    January 26, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    I agree with Anita. Great quote.

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  3. Joanne Fritz says

    January 26, 2011 at 4:34 pm

    Wow! What a perfect way to describe the desperate need we all have to write.

    Caroline, I’m ashamed to admit I’d never heard of Etty Hillesum until I read your quote. Googled her immediately. Isn’t it amazing how the world knows Anne Frank so well, but not Etty Hillesum? They both wrote diaries in Amsterdam during the Holocaust. And the world lost them both too soon.

    Thanks for the enlightenment.

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  4. Sunny says

    January 27, 2011 at 12:57 am

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