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Martina
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“Writers tend to come out of families in which it is understood that language is powerful”
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“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.”
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“I think of the way a writer opens a novel, as akin to how clinical psychology begins, with a kind of contract that the reader - God, I mean the patient - enters into with the psychotherapist.”
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“Io produco una merce che è in realtà inconsumabile. […] Morirò io, morirà il mio editore, moriremo tutti noi, morirà tutta la nostra società, morirà il capitalismo, ma la poesia resterà inconsumata.”
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“The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don’t write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid’s burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.”
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