For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write
Interpretation
Being a writer is an inherent part of one's identity rather than a mere profession or hobby.
In this quote, Laura Hillenbrand emphasizes that writing is not just a vocation or a choice for her, but an integral aspect of who she is. She reflects on her childhood experiences, where her passion for storytelling drove her to write constantly, illustrating that true creativity often emerges from an innate compulsion rather than external obligations or expectations.
In practice
This quote could be used in a writing workshop to inspire budding authors about their passion for writing.
Every day after lunch when I was writing my first book, I'd nibble a square of fine chocolate and meditate on all that had gone into its creation: the sun and rain that spilled on the cocoa plant, the soil that nourished it, the hands that picked the beans, and so on. My taste of chocolate became a lesson on the interconnectedness of things, and the infinite blessings for which I am grateful.
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
Without dignity, identity is erased.
It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.
Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did
All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.
I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.
Creativity is an act of defiance.
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
Film acting, if you don't play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don't even meet many of them. And you don't know what will happen with what you've done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.
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