Category: Inpsiration
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Sister Souljah on Writing…
Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things. Sister Souljah
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Writing for Girls of Color…
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think. Ntozake Shange
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Writing and Education…
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. Gwendolyn Brooks
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Stories Matter…
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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On Writing and Myths…
There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves, rather than a descendant of immigrants who came here willingly and with lives more or less intact. My ancestors were the unwilling, unintact ones: children torn from parents, parents torn from elders, […]
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Science Fiction and Modern Technology
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Job of Good Fiction…
Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. David Foster Wallace
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Happiness and Story…
It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. Haruki Murakami
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Finishing Your Writing…
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged. Erica Jong
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It Doesn’t Matter How You Write…
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write. Somerset Maugham
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