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Toni Morrison (b. February 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”

18 Feb

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“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”  

~ Toni Morrison, b. 18 February 1931

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Toni Morrison (b. February 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”

18 Feb

morrison-crop

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”  

~ Toni Morrison, b. 18 February 1931

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Toni Morrison (b. February 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”

18 Feb

Morrison

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”  

~ Toni Morrison, b. 18 February 1931

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Toni Morrison (b. Feb 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”

18 Feb

Morrison

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”  

~ Toni Morrison, b. 18 February 1931

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Ursula Le Guin: “A writer is a person who cares what words mean.”

2 Sep

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“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well, they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

~ URSULA LE GUIN

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Neil Postman (b. Mar 08): “In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested…”

8 Mar

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“In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.”

~ Neil Postman, b. 8 March 1931

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Toni Morrison (b. Feb 18): “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self… is the test of their power.”

18 Feb

Morrison

“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”  

~ Toni Morrison, b. 18 February 1931

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f scott fitzgerald: writers aren’t people

25 Jun

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“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying – only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”

~ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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