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My advice is to start reading and writing and looking and listening. Pay less attention to yourself than to what is outside you and if you must write about yourself, get a good distance away and judge yourself with a stranger’s eyes and a stranger’s severity.

Flannery O’Connor

O’Connor, F. (1987) Conversations with Flannery O’Connor. Jackson, University Press of Mississippi. p. 17