Dinty W. Moore Quotes

• Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Heart, Dancing, Alive

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• Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.

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  Writing, Heart, Exercise

  Dinty W. Moore (2012). “The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic.

  Dinty W. Moore

  School, Past, Self

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• My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Advice, Goodness

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with clear-eyed honesty and grace. Tailings is simply an exquisite book.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Spiritual, Honesty, Book

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• Floyd Skloot’s Revertigo is a beautifully-written, moving account of one man’s off kilter life. Who would have imaged a memoir exploring months of extreme vertigo and decades of neurological turbulence would be filled with so much joy and optimism? This gentle, wise, and perceptive memoir never fails to surprise.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Sabio, Mudanza, Hombres

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• I love the good old book with glue and binding, I really do, but that is just one way of experiencing text, and suddenly we have so many new ways, including our laptops, our phones, our watches. People in my generation agonize over this. People much younger than me don't agonize at all. They just go ahead and find ways to transform publishing.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Book, People, Publishing

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• Perhaps we can never understand our own children, because there is too much of ourselves inside there, or perhaps we are just blinded by the illusion that there is so much of ourselves inside of them.

  Dinty W. Moore

  Children, Illusion

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