Today on TCI 🔹 Author Andrea Barrett on the path to integrating your personal and creative life, the inspiration of the natural world on prose, and revisiting characters in fiction. Read the full interview via the link in the bio. 🌲 *** ID: A roundup of quotes from an interview with author Andrea Barrett that read... Slide 1: “Don’t discard what you learned in your other life. I found my voice when I was able to integrate my early life with my writing life.” Slide 2: "The things you know deeply—from driving a truck, environmental history, to construction—is a place you can write from.” Slide 3: “When I was working in a box factory, that was my life, that was what I thought I was doing. I had 13 jobs in my first 10 years out of college and I thought all of them was what I would end up doing. I was living within that moment.” Slide 4: “Having a lot of years without writing shaped me profoundly. I had to experience the uncertainty of not feeling at home in the world, and try to figure out who I was before I began to write seriously. I had to find my way.”