When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
Throughout my career I__e lived in constant fear that I wouldn__ be good enough, that I__ have nothing to say, that I__ be laughed at, humiliated__nd I__ old enough to know that fear will follow me to the very last word I__l ever write. As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I__ supposed to write__he grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don__ quite know it. But I trust I__l begin to know it soon.
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
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Throughout my career I__e lived in constant fear that I wouldn__ be good enough, that I__ have nothing to say, that I__ be laughed at, humiliated__nd I__ old enough to know that fear will follow me to the very last word I__l ever write. As for now, I feel the first itch of the novel I__ supposed to write__he grain of sand that irritates the soft tissues of the oyster. The beginning of the world as I don__ quite know it. But I trust I__l begin to know it soon.
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