"To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist."

-- Adrienne Rich

#Dream Quotes #Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.”

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“How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.”
“She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.”
“The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating and dieting, the obesity problem in France would be much worse than what has struck America.”
“The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.”
“I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.”
“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
“The enactment of the Homestead Act would create the strongest tie between the citizen and the Government-he would with cheerfulness contribute his proportionable part of the taxes to defray the expenses of the political system under which he lived.”

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