"My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated."

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Source : Maxine Kumin (1996). “Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories”

Maxine Kumin

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“I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.”
“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”
“Very little happens in my books.”
“We think there is color, we think there is sweet, we think there is bitter, but in reality there are atoms and a void.”
“From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them. It feels dishonest to be pulling back in that opening shot and leading him to his destiny.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the Supreme Court.”

Source : "The Crusade Against Reproductive Rights". "Moyers & Company", billmoyers.com. July 18, 2014.
“I believe in magical things happening and spiritual goings on. Sometimes the most mundane things can surprise you and be magical.”
“Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.”

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