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Stephen Wade

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    writer and teacher, I have come to see that many people need help and guidance in the effort to understand that stock of words which lies dormant and which we call upon when we desire to explain who we are and what we want.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This book is not a magical spell for transforming blandness and discontent into something rich and strange.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    about how you can work creative thinking into your life in a way that will give a spiritual, instinctual quality to your life; it is concerned with the ways in which language is your most powerful tool for working out change and renewal.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    There are no formulae, but there are methods of cultivating what is there, dormant in you and in us all.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    In my years as a teacher of creative writing and as a tutor for mature students, I have seen that a desire to get an education, to ‘learn everything’ as Willy Russell’s Rita says, is often no more than something else in disguise: a lack of acceptance of what we are.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    and that well-being is central to all quality of living.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This society instils in us a culture of success. We are told to look beautiful, to move gracefully, to perform so that we do well in interviews; we are told that certain body-shapes are acceptable,
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This is that element in being human which keeps us content and fulfilled even with the meanest, least materially successful life.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This is the pool of silent, latent and perhaps infinite creative pleasure in our imaginations. How do we access this?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    People tend to think in terms of potential negativity,
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