"You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes."
"Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think."
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Source: Tracy Chevalier (1999). “Girl with a Pearl Earring”, E P Dutton
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