Natalie Sia

reads & writes & mothers | former radio & TV presenter | 🇲🇾🇦🇺

[Natalie Sia @nat2612]

@Audrey_Burges @AlixEHarrow @lyndacloigman me too! I loved Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden's books so much 😍

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Thank you 😭 I’ve been stressing about these precisely.

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Just received a heartbreaking update from our favourite local kids’ hair salon @CandyHairSalon. Please support local small businesses and help them weather through this challenging time.

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@djed_press @MelCityofLit exactly. I just want to see some cute puppy videos on my feed.

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@erinmorgenstern Love these!!

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This thread 🤣

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Maybe, to overcome my writer's doubt and pressure, I should set out to write a terrible manuscript. Let it be bad, oh so bad, cringeworthy bad... but hey, at least write and finish something, right? 😄

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@AlixEHarrow I can't wait to read it!!!!!

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Me: I am going to get serious about writing and will actually WRITE this year!

Also me: Does everything else except write.

I'm doomed.

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I really do like his response. 🤣

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"Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. “If you want your children to be intelligent,” he said, “read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”"

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So many gems in this article by @neilhimself. I'll be sharing some points I loved in this thread, but you've got to read the entire article!

https://t.co/m0L7HSQ7BW

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"We all – adults and children, writers and readers – have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine."

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"Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all. We have an obligation not to bore our readers, but to make them need to turn the pages."

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"We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves."

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"Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading: stop them reading what they enjoy, or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like... You’ll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and worse, unpleasant."

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"I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children… There are no bad authors for children, that children like and want to read and seek out, because every child is different. They can find the stories they need to, and they bring themselves to stories."

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Happy birthday Alexa. You would have been 7 years old today. How time flies.

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@caitlinmoran Same. I think there were some days when I even went through an entire school day without drinking water 😲

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"Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river." I can't remember who said this, but I'm holding this quote close and tight.